Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos in the center of Karachi with his second wife, a sophisticated Persian.* Mirza's appointment to the governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have extensive and clearly defined powers, including the power to dismiss governments." Mirza's first job was to accept the resignation of Premier Mohammed Ali. The Premier...
...gathered on the Medina estuary at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for one of Britain's biggest regattas since King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown on each racing day bluebloods and commoners alike thronged Cowes's pubs or gathered on boats to roar out a night of song and story over Scotch...
...Virgin Queen (20th Century-Fox) straight from Hollywood's well-worn looms, is a plush, wall-to-wall tapestry depicting the rugged court life of late 16th century England. Chewing around the edges is Cinemactress Bette Davis who, according to the pressagents, was so taken with the script that she scurried out of retirement to play again the role of Queen Elizabeth (her first: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, with Errol Flynn...
...picture is fast on swordplay, heavy on overplay and light on screenplay. It begins with Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd), late of the Irish wars, winning an audience with the Queen; he wants to take three ships to the New World there to work for the greater glory of the 'British Empah." But the weary pan-amorous Elizabeth, who lost Errol Flynn back in the first film, likes the cut of Raleigh's jib- and his beard too. He is blunt, charming, gay, adventurous and never forgets to throw his cloak over mud puddles. He accepts...
...Joan Collins is easy on the eyes. In the regalia of her office, Actress Davis chugs about the palace like a twelve-cylinder Tudor, hand signals and all. She shaved some of her hair off for this role, but even so great a sacrifice was in vain. The Virgin Queen is strictly corn of the realm...