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Christian, then 41, took his place with a speech in which sorrow and modesty were stolidly blended. "I hope you will show me the same confidence and respect as you gave him," he said. Educated in Copenhagen's Metropolitanskole, he had served an 18-month term as a private in the army, often standing sentry duty on frosty nights outside the palace of his grandfather, Christian IX, who died in 1906. In 1898, the year in which he became Captain of the Royal Guards, the young giant married Alexandrine, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Christian has always been touchy about...
Found in 1921: an English Army of Occupation astride Ireland. Fear or sorrow or both oppressed every home, replacing for the time the carefree spirit usually found on the Emerald Isle. The "Informer" pointed up sharply the savagery of the period, and left undone the story of the personal tragedies behind the killings. So splendid and beautiful is Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Enemy" that no other picture of the romance in the civil war is likely to be filmed for some time to come...
Opera singers have a way of marrying wealthy husbands. Though Ganna Walska married four, she never persuaded a large public that she could sing. When, on the other hand, Mrs. Clarence Mackay sings in public, it is no occasion for sorrow. Though handsome Mrs. Mackay's voice has faded since she ceased being Anna Case, she still uses it with the intelligence that won her honors at the Metropolitan Opera. Last week in Chicago another wealthy woman sang three concerts so brilliantly that she brought her audiences to their feet cheering...
...kind of battle whose outcome would indicate eventual success or failure for his whole crusade. Labor Cancer, Imbued as a boy with the doctrines of a union printer in his father's shop, Thomas Dewey professes himself a true friend of Organized Labor. As such, he views with sorrow and anger the growth of the labor union as the prime tool of industrial racketeers. The technique of industrial racketeering, he has discovered, is simple, standardized. A racketeer gets control of a union, or a union leader turns racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City...
...country-squire Bennet, and one of three sisters, nearly pines to death over a lost love in a manner that highly smacks of "days of old and knights of yore. In marked contrast the modern girl would never permit so much as a frown to belie the sorrow and chagrin within her. Sister Elizabeth, as played by Muriel Kirkland, is a far more sensible and sophisticated young woman. She, together with her rattle-brained, match-designing mather and the bloated Lady Catherine de Bourgh, are perhaps the only female characters noticeably touched by the Renaissance of Women, characters whom...