Word: regaling
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...opera-man" (TIME, July 28), now in Vienna, the Opera Comique has ordered a lyric drama based on the successful Plus Que Reine, by Henri Caën. Under the title More Than Queen, it was produced in the U. S. in 1899, with Julia Arthur playing the regal part. It is a dramatization of the career of the unfortunate Empress Josephine, willowy victim of Europe's "man of destiny." Mascagni has already set himself to work transcribing her sighs into pathetic whisperings of violins and flutes...
...proposed picture would be acceptable, considering that other historic scenes connected with the growth of Parliament had been recorded on the walls of the House. The proposed picture was accepted and he commissioned Sims, executor of a recent regal atrocity (TIME, July 14, ART) to paint the scene. He stated, moreover, that Lady Astor had had nothing to do with the matter, had even opposed...
...reliable critics adjudged Mr. Sims' effort as one of the most questionable in the entire Academy. They felt sure that Mr. Sims had obtained, at most, only one sitting of his regal subject, had fallen back perforce on lay models for the body of the work...
After the termination of regal urbanities, the Dutch Royal Family will hie them to Swedish Lapland, where they will observe the midnight sun and visit hardy Laplanders in their camps...
...SWAN-The regal grace of its namesake exemplified in a flawless production of family life where Royal blood runs blue...