Word: regaling
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...white-thatched descendant of Roger Williams, threatened to break off trade treaty negotiations with Japanese officialdom until the girl was installed in his living quarters near the seacoast town of Shimoda. Long before she caught the consul's roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu. but after Townsend Harris' ultimatum. Japanese officials lured Tsuru-Matsu away from Okichi with promises of making him a samurai. On the rebound from this desertion. Okichi agreed to go to lonely...
...most quietly regal of all sculptured ladies reigned once again this week over West Berlin's Dahlem Museum. Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come") is the museum's most popular treasure, along with Rembrandt s Man with a Golden Helmet, and she has been away a long time. Cached for safekeeping in a salt mine during World War II, she was found by U.S. troops and warehoused in Wiesbaden. Not until this summer was Nefertete wrapped in tissue paper, put in a nest of boxes filled with ground cork and gingerly brought back to her air-conditioned glass...
Grace is well cast as the princess, and glides with shy detachment through the regal love affair, ever dressed in cool blue or white. After the first twenty minutes the audience begins to suspect that she is not acting...
...rest of the leads are generally well handled, especially that of the Grand Mikado (Victor Altshul). He has an impressive voice, and combines a regal loftiness with the eagerness of a village fool. The tendency toward madness is also reflected in the executioner (Ned Marcus), who leaps and leers his way across the stage. Marcus' continual body motion and fast pace tend to be a bit too intense, but he is quite funny, and could be even funnier if he would slow down enough to let all the lines come across. His best moments are with the old maid, played...
...Constitution where life is just one big, mad, gay whirl. The excitement increases as the wedding of Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Prince Rainier (pronounced Rey-ney) of Monaco approaches. One of the years most exciting and exclusive press conferences marked the sailing of this liner. With regal poise, Miss Kelly discussed her future with a few hundred reporters. She flashed that charming smile and said, "I do wish people would be more considerate and stop stomping on each other." Grace is such a thoughtful little dear...