Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Parliament reconvenes at London. Oct. 30-General election in Ontario, Canada. Nov. 5-In England, Guy Fawkes' Day national celebration with fireworks and bonfires in commemoration of Fawkes' "gunpowder plot" (1604). Nov. 9-Prince of Wales presides at dinner for all wearers of England's Victoria Cross (highest military decoration). Nov. 9-Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London. Aeronautics...
DISRAELI-George Arliss makes this drama of the Prime Minister who loved peacocks, gardening and Queen Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH-blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND-phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) -the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE-elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea...
...George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss making the Governor of the Bank of England sign the check that bought the Suez Canal...
...Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry founded by C. C. Stillman '98, was first held in 1926-27 by Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford, world famous classicist and man of letters. He was followed in 1927-28 by Professor Eric R. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Last year the chair was vacant...
...Queen Victoria wanted her Leopold to marry Frances, comely and rich. There followed a course of petty intrigues in which Jane Austen would have delighted. In the end Leopold married the lady of his choice and Frances got his equerry, Lord Brooke ("Brookie"). ". . . Owing to an ill-timed attack of measles our wedding did not come off until the following April." With trumpet's clap and liturgy they were wedded in Westminster Abbey, surrounded by people with fairy-book names...