Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
...Thomas Royden of the Cunard line was there. He had ordered the liner Scythia into dock at Liverpool so that people who wanted to see the race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest and was now sitting with Queen Thuraya in the Earl of Derby's box. It was a big week for him and he didn't want to miss anything. Howard Bruce of Maryland, owner of Billy Barton, sat in Sir Thomas Royden's box. All stood with their coat collars turned up, staring into...
Other funny plays: BURLESQUE, THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND...
Died. Edouard Deru, 53, onetime violin instructor of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, and long the court violinist to the King and Queen of Belgium; in San Francisco...
...Wilson '27, star of last year's Hasty Pudding show "Gentlemen, the Queen", took to the boards again last night to replace C. H. Pforzheimer '28 in the role of Peritonita, Spanish dancing senorita in "Not Now--Later". Pforzheimer is ill, but will probably go on tour with the show when it leaves on Saturday. Wilson will take his place again this evening...