Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth a wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls...
...Russian Revolution, have a keen sense of theatricality and unusual atmospheric effects. It is interesting to note that he is now at work on settings for "The Emperor Jones" of Eugene O'Neill, which is to be produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company this winter. The sketch for the Throne Room scene from this play is included in the exhibition...
...queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...
...Government. , -." Lord Chancellor Sankey, in full robe and wig, advanced to the throne and on slightly bended knee presented to George V the King's Speech, written every year by the Cabinet...
...full of stickling Spanish Royalists. These sticklers reminded "His Majesty" that he never abdicated but merely left Spain (TIME, April 27, 1931). They urged him to abdicate at once in favor of his son Juan "so that a manifesto can be issued urging all Spaniards to rally to the Throne...