Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
...applauded heartily. Her latest patriotic exploit was to leave her husband at Naples and go to Ethiopia whence she returned more popular than ever (TIME, March 30). Though Princess Marie-José's birth pangs came on prematurely there was time for her strapping Montenegrin mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, to rush from Rome to Naples, but her more fragile mother, the sad-eyed, widowed Queen Mother of the Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel...
...brave enough" to see herself on the screen, Viennese Cinemactress Elisabeth Bergner fidgeted in an office at the London Pavilion while Queen Mary viewed her latest film. Dreaming Lips, crept to her seat in time to be presented as the performance ended...
...Tsar Alexander emancipated his serfs. In Charleston, S. C.. the guns opened on Fort Sumter. Queen Victoria buried her beloved Albert...
ELEANOR or AQUITAINE-Melrich V. Rosenberg-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Routine but interesting first English biography of the 12th Century "Queen of the Troubadours and of the Courts of Love" whose political intrigues relieved her not only of royal husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, but also of her favorite son, Richard the Lion-Heart...