Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American publicity and the terrible New York reporters." there finally came in last week on the Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess...
...cheerfully this thankless role Prince Benno, by act of the Dutch Parliament, is expected to be invested on his marriage with the rank of Prince of The Netherlands and allotted the modest civil list as Prince Consort of 200,000 florins ($136,000) per year. Britain's Queen Victoria, who proposed to her Albert, secured for him as Prince Consort, after much wrangling in the House of Commons, a civil list...
...these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office, causing Largo Caballero to emerge from time to time on a balcony with clenched fist upraised and shout, "La victoria es nuestra! Victory is ours...
...rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. During the Century of Progress, she tried to have Fan Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without suppressions or inhibitions; they threw their Christmas tree out the window without a word of parental rebuke; they learned life from the transcripts of testimony in Chicago criminal courts; they won beauty contests, rode...
Last week two distinguished theatrical estivators, Victoria Regina and Idiot's Delight, returned to Manhattan. Of sturdier stuff were six other shows (Boy Meets Girl, Dead End, Mulatto, New Faces, On Your Toes, Pre-Honeymoon) which had run straight through the heat and lassitude of a Broadway summer. Mean- time, Three Men On a Horse was entering its third season, Tobacco Road its fourth as the 1936-37 theatre year opened with the presentation of Spring Dance by Philip Barry and two Smith College alumnae. With the possible exception of Anne Nichols' Pre-Honeymoon...