Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knot of the idle curious pressed around the ropes. Inside the shut-off area -a stretch of bomb-racked street back of Victoria Station, London-grotesque figures moved about: men dressed like sailors out in some supernatural storm, in great shiny capes, voluminous shiny trousers, boots, gloves, masks, helmets...
...benefit ($2 standing room to $10 a seat) grossed some $40,000 for British War Relief. The warmly emotional audience, though it hardly cared, got its money's worth-till 4 a.m. At the microphone was England's own Gertrude Lawrence. Helen Hayes played Queen Victoria. The Information Please team guessed (right, as usual) that "a bald-headed man in charge of cross-country runners" was Mussolini...
...time, cigar-smoking (box-a-day) McArthur studied orchestra scores, practiced waving a stick before a mirror. An ear-splitting singer, he made his wife, his onetime singing pupil Blanche Victoria Pope, his stand-in vocalist in his studies. Flagstad plugged him as a conductor (TIME, Feb. 5, 1940). The San Francisco and Chicago operas hired Conductor McArthur; last year the Met unbent and let him do a Tristan in a post-season visiting performance in Boston. But not until last week did the Met let him play in its own back yard. Critics gave Edwin McArthur top marks...
...which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four greatest 19th Century ballerinas gave before Queen Victoria...
Married. Lady Iris Mountbatten, cousin of George VI and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Captain Hamilton O'Malley, of the Irish Guards; at Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. Her cousin Lady Louis Mountbatten was a great friend of their cousin, Edward Windsor...