Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Pettingill senses the truth. Although permission to photograph King Leopold III in color had not been granted by the Royal Chancellory even to leading Belgian illustrated magazines, recently His Majesty graciously agreed to sit for a color photograph. TIME'S Photographers Leigh Irwin and Nicholas Langen arrived one morning at the Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting...
...other dugout officers fulminating in service clubs against the new order last week could not have the satisfaction of belittling their new Chief of Staff as an upstart. Lord Gort is a sixth Viscount, an old Harrovian, a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron, and grandson of famed Robert Smith Surtees, author of the fox hunters' bible Handley Cross. It also happens that he is a professional soldier of great ability, holds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration...
...which Their Majesties could not very well join. Unlike the rest of the audience, King George and Queen Elizabeth apparently did not know the end of the extremely old and questionable anecdote which Mr. Miller began to tell, then brought down the breathless house by glancing at the Royal Box and breaking off "No, no! I can't tell this one tonight!" Instead Max told the one about the girl who said to him "Aren't you ugly...
From the first moment of the play, when she prances in leading a snake dance around a Christmas tree, it is clear that two-and-a-half years' vacation have done Ethel Barrymore good. Her Royal Family tricks are polished up. She lowers her eyebrows and leers Barrymorishly, poses in her swishing draperies. Her voice still sounds like a primeval maiden's wailing for a demon lover. She still brings to the theatre talent in such abundance that, compared to her, most other actresses are as watery custard to rich plum pudding...
...little crazy to be a great author; the trouble with me is that I'm not crazy enough," Richard Halliburton, author of "The Royal Road to Romance" who numbers swimming the Hellespont and crossing the Alps by elephant among his exploits, said in an interview Saturday...