Word: viii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iced Highballs. Already sold out through June 11, the annual Shakespeare Festival opened last week with Macbeth, starring Godfrey Tearle and Cinemactress Diana Wynyard. Among the season's brand-new productions: John Gielgud's Much Ado About Nothing, Tearle's Othello, Tyrone Guthrie's Henry VIII. By October, the theater management reckons that it will have taken in something close...
...fabulous life of Henry VIII has long been juicy material for all sorts of novelists, playwrights, and historians. "The Private Lives of Henry VIII" attempts to deal only with four of his marriages, throwing in a few lines here and there just to show that the king was interested in matters outside the field of sex. Some years ago a British writer observed that the great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture...
Schooled on the New York Daily News, Newsman Ruppel graduated with a bang to the Chicago Times in 1935 as managing editor. He brought along a flair for big pictures and blatant headlines. When Edward VIII abdicated, Ruppel proclaimed LONG LOVE THE KING! He sent a reporter to an Illinois mental hospital as a patient, bannered the inside story SEVEN DAYS IN THE MADHOUSE. After a blizzard: SNOW, SNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES SNOW. In four noisy, readable years under Ruppel, Times circulation doubled...
Smiling wryly, Secretary of State Dean Acheson opened his press conference last week by quoting Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII...
...Henry VIII could never have carried out such acts if there had not been a movement against Rome among his people: it was led by men willing to fight papacy and Church for the freedom to read and interpret the Bible as they saw fit. Henry never countenanced such radicals, and he burned some as heretics during his reign. To Henry, that was just good sense...