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...Majesty King George VI last week opened a new session of Parliament. In his Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty announced, among other things, that he and Queen Elizabeth were "happy to accept" the invitation of President Roosevelt to visit the U. S. during their scheduled trip to Canada next spring...
...London the closing session of the House of Commons, which was about to rise and reconvene for a new session with the Speech from the Throne on November 8, last week brimmed with historic interest. The Prime Minister asked a vote of confidence on his foreign policy to date and won it, 345-to-138, after plainly intimating to the House that what must now be expected is an almost unlimited extension of Japanese influence in East Asia and of German influence in East Europe. The shades of British Imperialists from Good Queen Bess to Rudyard Kipling must have paled...
Father to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler's thoughts of Drang nach Osten was Charlemagne, who late in the 8th Century had his eye on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne planned an arterial waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the Rhine and the Danube, thence to the Eastern capital, Constantinople. But when his engineers tried to link up the Rhine and the Danube, rains and mountains stymied them...
Though it cannot be classed as a truly great picture, nevertheless lavish pageantry, fine acting and powerful emotional drama combine to make "Marie Antoinette," current offering at the University, splendid entertainment. Norma Shearer's characterization of the French queen, whose throne brings her only disillusionment, loneliness, and finally death itself, is touching if over-favorable in its presentation. Unfortunately Tyrone Power, Miss Shearer's leading man, does not give her the support she deserves. His portrayal of Court Fersen is un convincing; in the emotional heights of tender love scenes, he appears stiff and wooden. What the film suffers...
Digesting these signs and portents, the Prime Minister convened his Cabinet- with two vacancies-and began to chart the Speech from the Throne to be delivered November 8. This is the annual state-of-the-nation speech of His Majesty's Government, and since His Majesty's Government have vital interests in every part of the world, it behooved Mr. Chamberlain to look about him far & wide...