Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German girl child was born in London 115 years ago last week to become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
Married, Basil Dean, English producer; and Victoria Hopper, small, blonde cinemactress whom he directed in The Constant Nymph; in Dunmow, Essex...
...break up the marriage she has the bride trailed by a detective, accuses her of misconduct with a physician friend. The bride defends her virtue, begs her husband to take her away. Before he can, wicked old Victoria gets her alone, pushes her into a secret treasure-vault where she is left to suffocate. When she is rescued, Victoria entombs herself in the vault, crackling insanely over Van Brett heirlooms...
Good shot: Victoria playing an organ amid the mansion's gloom...