Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bristol's energetic young (19) Paul Garland is a good scout-good enough to wear the Queen's Badge, the British equivalent of the Eagle Scout in the U.S. Paul Garland is also a good Communist: he was recently appointed secretary of the West of England Young Communist League. Last week, on the grounds that virtue in both of these pursuits is incompatible, the British Boy Scouts Association asked Queen's Scout Garland to turn in his uniform. No Communist, said the association, could possibly live up to the Scout promise "to do my duty...
Britain's royal family observed a golden wedding anniversary. A quiet celebration was held in Kensington Palace for the spry Earl of Athlone, 79, great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth, onetime Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1923-31) and Canada (1940-46), and his handsome wife, Princess Alice, 70, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
After Britain's New Statesman and Nation waggishly caricatured her in drawing and word ("Queen Edith [whose] mask is elaborate . . . eye-sockets . . . thumbed by a master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from...
...chivalrous life was sprinkled with palace romances that would be cover stories in every contemporary magazine from Focus to Dare. In Knights of the Round Table, the movie version of the tale, MGM has all but smothered the knight's rakish inclinations. True, he remains the "champion" to Queen Guinevere, but in the book the word seems to have a greater breadth of meaning...
Flecked with historical idioms like "My liege" and "So be it!", the dialogue is dull and insipidly metaphorical. Taylor and Ava Gardner, who plays Guinevere, struggle gamely, but neither can reduce the heaviness of the material. Late in the film Queen Guinevere is sent to a nunnery. Miss Gardner shifts through this role with the same dexterity we would expect from Lily St. Cyr. Mel Ferrer, as King Arthur, spends the greater part of the film looking wide-eyed at people and ornaments about the palace. He is so obsequious one cannot help but wonder how he put over this...