Word: royale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson has become one of the most talented Hamlets of the modern drama is not surprising when his natural qualifications are considered. Son of an art critic, he directed his education to the acquisition of an artist's technique, studying in the Royal Academy School of England, and also in France. It was not until his twenty-first year that he changed his career from painting to the stage. By the success of his debut (1874) in "Mary Stuart" it became evident that the stage was his natural field...
...that time Professor Miyatovich has been Serbian delegate to the First International Peace Conference at the Hague, minister to Great Britain and other courts. He is the author of several historical books, and a member of several Academies of Sciences and literary societies, more particularly, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Serbia, of the South-Slay Academy of Agram (Croatia), and an honorary member of the Royal Historical Society in London...
...Freshman Finance Committee has completed its work of collection under the system of sub-committees supervised by chairmen. The chairmanships of these sub-committees were awarded to Cass Canfield '19, of Rollyn, L. I., N. Y., Stillman Roberts Dunham, Jr., '19, of Allston, Charles White Greenough '19, of Cambridge, Royal Little '19, of Brookline, and Frederick Winslow Rice, Jr., '19, of Brighton...
King Henry being out of sorts over the failure of the royal pond to yield him fish, summons Godred before him. In a fit of anger at the latter's boldness he orders him to be shot at sunrise, only in this case "shot" means "beheaded." Only on one condition may his life be spared,--namely, if the Lady Margaret Silchester consents to be his wife. She, dean thing, consents out of pity, only to be refused by the haughty Godred, who swears that he would rather die than live without "love, love, love...
...room in Hampton Court Palace. King Henry is here seen at his best and kept the audience in high good humor over his buffoonery. The act closes with the heroine in the hero's arms and a ridiculous clap-trap stage device showing the Celtic shores appearing through the royal tapestry on the walls...