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...grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet of white pansies and white orchids with mauve centres; the bridesmaids wore short veils instead of hats. Best man: Brother Nelson Aldrich. Ushers: groom's three...
Precisely at 2:40 p. m. self-effacing Mme Lebrun took her place of honor. She cried, "I name thee Normandie!" She tripped the christening machine. Champagne foamed and spurted. The vast black hull slid down the ways and everyone-oblivious of the fact that it had begun to rain in earnest-sang "La Marseillaise...
While the German Empire lasted, its national anthem (sung to the same music as Britain's "God Save the King") was Heil dir im Siege skranz-"Hail thou whose victor's crown safeguards thy realm's re- nown; all hail to thee [i.e. the Kaiser]!" After the Fatherland became a Republic, its Socialist first President, Friedrich Ebert...
...Phantom President (Paramount) proposes that the way to save the U. S. is to elect George Michael Cohan president. A strange combination of serious flagwaving, savage political comment, pure comedy, farce and romance, it owes much to George S. Kaufman's Of Thee I Sing...
...sorry that Rebecca, whose figure "might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England," did not in the end marry Wilfred of Ivanhoe who saved her from being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca was a pious young lady from Philadelphia named Rebecca Gratz...