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Word: regina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's National Theatre one night last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt took Secretary of the Treasury & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. to see Helen Hayes as Victoria Regina. So charmed was Mrs. Roosevelt by Actress Hayes' performance that when the play ended, she stood up in her box, clapped for five curtain calls. Next day she had Miss Hayes in to the White House for luncheon and at 3 p. m. Actress Hayes hurried back to her hotel suite in high excitement, canceled half a dozen appointments, summoned a beautician to fix her bobbed hair. That evening by special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Victoria Regina, For those who make a hobby of Actress Hayes' career, Victoria Regina can be considered a sort of retrospective exhibition of some of the memorable parts she has played on her way up to the top during the past 17 years. Scene 1 represents the entrance hall at Kensing ton Palace early one morning in 1837. Lord Conyngham, the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury have come to rouse William IV's niece out of bed, tell her of her uncle's death and her succession to the Throne of England. Suddenly Actress Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Mary of Scotland, one of the dramatic events of 1934. Memorable sequence in that play was the hapless Scottish queen's leave-taking from her lover Bothwell (Philip Merivale). Minus swords and capes to heighten the drama, Miss Hayes as the dumpy little royal matron of Victoria Regina manages to pack an astonishing amount of tragic power into her dismay at Albert's fatal chill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

When this explanation was not readily forthcoming, she undertook the defense. "Regina in tonight's play would never have stayed in that gloomy house to take care of an invalid under any conditions. She was too full of the joy of life to allow herself to be cooped by with as invalid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nazimova, Now Playing in "Ghosts," Chats of Ibsen, Herself, and the Play | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...spaghetti in the grande Salone da pranzo at a royal banquet table seating 20. By touching a button near his bedside telephone George II could connect himself with either of the royal parlors, or the Queen's intimate and exquisite camera da letto di Sua Maesta la Regina- although last week there was no Queen aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Home to Hellas | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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