Word: royalist
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...bride was beautiful, her name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a gown of shimmering satin designed by Jean Charles Worth, most chipper of Parisian grands couturiers, who hops about and chirps...
Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...
...impeccably literate technique which has always distinguished him. He has costumed his hero in the glamour of the fallen great. Aaron Burr (McKay Morris) is poor, old, an exile in Paris, his political career over. By chance, in a mean Paris wineshop, he finds himself eavesdropping on a Royalist intrigue. With the expert, knowledge of character proper to so eminent a confidence-man, Burr turns the intrigue to his own use. He makes love to the only woman in the conspiracy (Jessie Royce Landis) and steals the fine clothes of the richest conspirator. He fights a duel with a young...
...play has to do with a French provincial politician (Mr. Love) who hires a young blade (Mr. Rathbone) to compromise the wife (Ann Andrews) of a crotchety old royalist (Mr. Kerr). In this way the politician will be able to marry the wife without the unpleasant notoriety which would ensue should he do the compromising himself. It is inevitable that Mr. Rathbone should fall in love with Miss Andrews, that Mr. Love should become irked, expose the scheme to Mr. Kerr, who has known about it all the time. Gracefully the affair is settled, Mr. Rathbone acquiring a racehorse...
Plots to restore 17-year-old Archduke Otto to the Throne of Hungary and rumored meetings of Royalist conspirators in Hungarian castles have kept Hungarians in a romantic haze of Graustarkian intrigue for many months. Last week the crack of rifles in Budapest snapped citizens back to reality, and the problems of unemployment...