Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...
After diligent rehearsal under the supervision of U.S. Comedian Danny Kaye, a royal family favorite, the eight young Mayfair belles staged a spirited cancan* complete with panty-revealing finale. The Douglas' 250-odd guests roared with approval and demanded an encore. Two days later the Daily Express headlined: PRINCESS MARGARET DOES THE CANCAN. British tongues clucked disapproval...
Prince Philip gave some future tars a demonstration of royal prowess. At the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey, Wales, Philip tossed a javelin 109 feet, four feet better than the school "silver star" (i.e., a letter) proficiency standards...
...most popular new exhibition in London last week was at the stodgy old Royal Society of Arts. Strictly for the hot weather, the society had assembled 162 cartoons and sketches, by 50 artists, chosen to reflect the British sense of humor. Princess Elizabeth, in cool green and white, gave the show a royal launching with a tour of inspection that covered a century and a half of evidence...
...face-lengthening austerity program) and H. M. Bateman's Tragedy at Wellington Barracks, a study in horror-struck faces as a butter-fingered guardsman on parade drops his rifle. It was dapper Australian-born Cartoonist Bateman who had started the whole thing in a speech to the Royal Society last February, declaring it was high time the British had a "National Academy of Humorous Art." Last week's show was a sort of test...