Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet, Please. That night none of the royal family bothered to dress for dinner. They all ate a cold snack in the palace sitting room, and during the long wait that followed, Philip paced up & down in an old pair of flannels and tieless shirt...
...William Rothenstein, president of London's Royal College of Arts, felt justified in feeling peeved that day in 1923: his star pupil was deserting him. Young Uday Shankar, who had come all the way from India to study painting, was about to join Anna Pavlova's ballet troupe. "Please, persuade Mme. Pavlova not to do this," Sir William begged a friend. Replied Pavlova: "Please tell Sir William that Shankar is a born dancer. He must dance. Oh, he must dance...
...legend of Tallulah, which can no longer be completely separated from fact, pictures her as a combination of great lady and rowdy hoyden moving in an aura of sex and alcohol. She has been perfectly at ease in a San Francisco waterfront dive, in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, or playing poker with stagehands. She can quote readily, and at impressive length, from the Bible, Shakespeare, and a lavatory wall. Onstage she is gowned by famous designers (she was once called the "world's only volcano dressed by Mainbocher"). Offstage, she prefers slacks and a mink coat. Hollywood didn...
Augustus John painted her portrait. It stole the show one year at the Royal Academy and now hangs opposite her bed in Windows, where it is the first thing she sees when she wakes up. In 1932, she turned down...
...pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since, A Royal Scandal (1945), was an indifferent picture that won her good reviews as Catherine the Great...