Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloody Richard III dies on Bosworth Field crying: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Henry Tudor, distant cousin of the last Lancastrian, King Henry VI, returns from exile, wins on Bosworth Field and marries Elizabeth, sister of the murdered York princes. Thus Henry Tudor merges the Houses of York and Lancaster, ends the Wars of the Roses, establishes his own House of Tudor. Many of his subjects believe that the York princes are still alive, that they somehow escaped from Richard Ill's confinement. But they do not reappear on the English scene. A century later...
...Lords, he has made a poetic play. Designer Robert Edmond Jones has set it against six harsh, splendid sets. The first scene is of Mary's landing at Leith, a "cold, dour, villainous and dastardly" place. The second in England shows Elizabeth plotting to trick Mary into marrying Tudor-blooded Darnley, a Catholic, thus enraging the Protestant Lords and making it impossible for Mary ever to become Queen of Protestant England...
...picture. But there is neither ebb nor flow in Mr. Laughton himself; he is equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail in palatial decor neglected, no outlet for photographic ingenuity closed...
...Massachusetts; Bruce Bliven, Jr., son of the president and editor of the New Republic; and O. R. Cohen, Jr., whose father is the author of many negro stories and a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post. R. H. Gardiner, a relative of the former governor of Maine, William Tudor Gardiner, and Walter Hines Page II, a relation of the former ambassador, are also entering this year...
...cast is as follows: Rene, O. Z. Whitehead '34; Sparrowby, R. F. Alsop '36; Trevor, Robert Breckinridge '34; William, H. O. Tudor '35; Ludovic, H. D. Patterson '34; Colonel Mutsome, W. S. Burrage '33; John, R. J. Bry '35; Claire, Elisabeth Morison; Agatha, Jeanne McMillan; Hortensia, Agnes Love; Sybil, Natalie Pulsifer; Mrs. Vulpy, Jean Goodale...