Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightly controlled. Day after day, he sat composed in the House of Commons while criticisms beat about his head. Whenever he rose to answer the baiting, he projected a conviction that he was sure he was right. Sir Horace Evans, who is also physician to the Queen, urged him repeatedly to take a few days off, but Eden stubbornly drove himself on, taking more and more of the Suez work load himself, sweeping aside any suggestion that he should delegate more work to other Cabinet members. But his way had failed, and the penalties of a botched job were upon...
...that Gilbert and Sullivan really requires is a good chorus and plenty of vigor. Iolanthe has both, and more. The show has a few good voices, enough upright carriage and arching of brows, and just the right proportion of gentle traipsing. Iolanthe's brilliant lines, scoring Liberals and Conservatives, Queen Victoria, and the peer-made British plebes, Parliament and Chancery and even Captain Shaw of the London Fire Brigade, could carry virtually any cast. Happily, they do not need to carry this...
Although the males in the cast carry most of the operetta, perhaps the standout is Alison Keith as Queen of the Fairies. Wonderfully arch, she carries off everything she attempts, even mixed lines. Though Elizabeth Peterson confounds none of her lines, nor in fact does anything foolish, she somehow conveys a less satisfactory impression. She is said to have a good voice, but I find it, and the seriousness with which she takes it, irritating. Her part, of course, will not permit the clownishness of the others, but still one wishes that she would consent to do mere Gilbert...
Died. Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, 62, beauteous, dark-haired sister of the late King Carol II of Rumania, and onetime (1922-35) Queen of Greece; of a heart ailment, a month after she adopted the Marquis Marc de Savrat, her handsome, 33-year-old French equerry, gave him her family name of Hohenzollern; in Cannes, France. Elizabeth married the Greek Crown Prince in 1921, shared the throne with him when he became King George II of Greece (September 1922), fled to Rumania in exile when the late George was ousted after 15 months, rocked the Balkans by charging unfaithfulness...
...HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, VOL. II, THE NEW WORLD, by Winston S. Churchill (433 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $6), rolls with Churchillian eloquence over those troubled years between the first great Tudors. including Bloody Mary (the last Roman Catholic Queen of England), and the bloodless Revolution of 1688 (which established Britain in a truce of class, power and tradition). Churchill presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology...