Word: regalness
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After the funeral, at which his demeanor was temperately described as having been "anything but regal," the Horrible Hohenzollern enjoyed more gay parties, meeting at one of these a pretty lady for whom he bought jewelry next day in Bond Street. Afterward he dined with Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Anthony Eden, then made such a night of it that next morning frantic Rumanian attaches went about bleating . "Our King is lost!" and only found him just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard...
...emerged to sell the glamorous trappings which represented her years of triumphs. She presided over the exhibit with all her oldtime manner, fingered with wistful pride the silver cape she had worn as Elsa, the shiny helmet that had been hers as Brünnhilde, the regal white train in which she had swept the stage as Isolde...
Glory. Actress Hayes' "cute" period fused with her more mature phase in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The Serpent of the Nile was her first regal impersonation. Notwithstanding Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams' crack that she was suffering from "fallen archness," Miss Hayes still maintains: "I felt that my tiny Cleopatra was just right. It seemed to me that Shaw meant her to be a gay young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give...
...asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough to be a king's daughter. Throughout the performance she maintained more of the grand manner than any one on the stage, although John Charles Thomas projected a noble dignity as the captive Amonasro, Aïda's Haile Selassie...
...snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted by a motorcade of Egyptian troops, with a machine-gun car leading on the three-hour run to Cairo where he put up at the swank Continental Hotel. Announcing he would soon board an Imperial Airways liner for London, regal Rickett gloated...