Word: regina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna" with the sabre cuts in her cheek. Their monotonously repeated prayer: "Theotokos, Mother of God, thanks to thee the wheat is in. But let it not be wasted; let there...
Last week two events dramatically demonstrated how greatly Axis pressure in the Balkans had changed, not only Rumania, but King Carol. Rumania celebrated her Navy Day, dedicated her Tashaul Base. On the destroyer Regina Maria the King warned a select audience of plans for carving rich Rumania: "The determination to defend our frontiers must exist in the soul of every Rumanian. . . . Whatever is Rumanian cannot be given away, whatever is Rumanian will be defended. . . . If anyone loves peace, he must realize that the frontiers as now marked out cannot be changed without the danger of a worldwide disaster. . . . My affection...
...translated, and practically rewritten, by Hecht and MacArthur (The Front Page, 20th Century), Ladies and Gentlemen gives Helen Hayes (Mrs. MacArthur) her first new play after three years and 969 performances of Victoria Regina. She was glad to escape from that "rarefied atmosphere," says she, "because I am fearful of becoming the centre of a cult." Ladies and Gentlemen, after opening in Santa Barbara, last week started a month's tryout on the West Coast-two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Hayes said her husband felt that, if she must play in his piece...
...farmers of Saskatchewan may be poor but they have spirit and imagination; concerts, dances, bazaars scraped up the money to send thousands of boys and girls in overalls and homemade dresses from schools within a radius of 200 miles to Regina, the provincial capital, for a glimpse of their King and Queen. Lacking the money for the fancy decorations of the East, the resourceful townspeople decorated the lampposts with sprays of wheat. Doubly welcome were the King and Queen for with them came rain for dusty fields. That night at little Moose Jaw, despite rain and the exhausting ceremonies...
...Theatre was injected into the hearings by Actress Helen Hayes. Divesting herself of the majesty which for three years she has worn in Victoria Regina, she threw herself into the role of plain "Mrs. Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters around the family dinner table. "I remember that there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured...