Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady this queen, Roumanian, and very very "picturesque"! She will not set a style in gray hats, she will not play tennis for money, even in Boston--yet she will eat American food and meet whom ever Mayor Walker can collect to make a hen mot worthy the royal tradition...
...Printz is an Arrow Collar boy with an Arrow Collar boy's personality. He sings fairly-well, however, and makes an honest stab at being Kathie's equal. She, the waitress, is a cute baby-face with a pleasant voice and more acting poise than her royal lover. The master-comedian, Dewolf Hopper, gives a professional air to the show and makes even the slightest wise-crack seem funny by the aid of a contorted face and voice. The rest of the cast is enthusiastic and homely enough to make the play as wholesome and hearty as a German Christians...
Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
Despite the pouring rain thousands cheered the new Governor General as he rode through the streets of Quebec, guarded by the Royal Canadian Dragoons...
Charles Sims, associated with the Royal Academy, studied with Jules Lefebyre and Benjamin Constant, acquired a precise and elegant technique, and developed, by painting the cold noses of aristocrats and the torsos of the wives of trade-kings, a satiric turn of mind that would have made him an ornament to the House in the days of Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Two years ago he painted a picture of King George. The monarch's little legs protruded from a dandiacal bouquet of ribbons and stars, ermine and furbelows; his wan, overbred features looked down like a face...