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Wearing a dark business suit beneath his pomp-and-circumstantial ermine-trimmed scarlet robes, Prince Charles last week took his seat in the House of Lords. After swearing allegiance to both his mother and himself ("Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors"), the prince self-consciously donned the floppy black Cap of Maintenance. Then, like any mere peer, Charles retreated backstage and bummed a cigarette...
...Larry had changed the visions to nightmares as he ended the bout with two cuts that hit the top of my head, and the final touch which started out as a feint to the head but ended as a cut to the chest, which later developed in to a scarlet welt...
...spites. There are pseudo profundities that recall the worst of The Lion in Winter: "I am the King of England; when I pray, God answers." Even the costumes are exaggerated. Lest the audience miss the villainous character of Cardinal Wolsey (Anthony Quayle), he is wrapped in a Satanic scarlet no vicar ever wore on earth...
...Crimson ontrebounded the Scarlet Knights, but shot only 31 per cent from the floor to Rutgers' 50 per cent. Junior guard Bob Wenzel paced the Knights with 24. Dale Dover, who scored 23 for Harvard, twisted his ankle and missed the next two games...
...juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well-remembered films, among them Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932) and Scarlet Empress...