Word: royale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
...first time he had seen them. It had been one of those beautiful Spring days("cloudy with light showers in Boston and vicinity") and he, along with two-score noisy Crimson editors, half the Cambridge police force and a little man with a flashlight camera, had shown Their Royal Highnesses the Zog Sisters, Harvard's high spots...
Trip advisors, knowing well the royal ardor on official jaunts, insisted on rest periods at Banff, Victoria and Jasper Park. Their Majesties will deftly escape ticklish social problems by living on their train most of the way, by holding no royal courts. They may, however, hold a garden party in Ottawa-the next best thing...
Back in the U. S. after six months and ten days in Europe ("to save money in income tax"), Soprano Grace Moore defended her much-criticized curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor in Cannes last December: "She would have been a royal duchess long ago if she had not been an American. After all, she gave happiness and the courage of his convictions to one man, which is more than most women can do. She deserves a curtsy for that alone...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...