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...King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged the Covent Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream Guards at Aldershot, shouting in at the mess hall door "Any complaints?" May 25 inspected the Queen Mary prior to her maiden voyage, flying from his snuggery, Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen...
...made the goat of New-Dealer Hepburn's need to do away with some frippery or extravagance last week. "I guess you'd better cut out your Speaker's Reception," the Premier told crestfallen Mr. Hipel, then bawled at reporters: "We'll have no teacup juggling ! There may be criticism in the City of Toronto but the man out in the back concession is applauding what I'm doing...
...last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together a convincingly human episode, a comedy that ends inevitably in death...
Glenn Hunter plays the English schoolboy with a certain shy dignity which magnifies the part beyond the author's limits, and rightly so. We know of no scene so rich in possibilities as that in which, teacup and plate on Knee, the lad confesses (in a deplorable sonnet), his love. The laurels of the evening, clearly...
...color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...