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...clock on the morning of her 70th birthday, Princess Wilhelmina, Queen of The Netherlands from 1898 to 1948, gathered together her paints and easel, silently left Het Loo palace to work on a half-finished landscape. Later in the day she joined Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and her four granddaughters for a quiet family party...
...honor Queen Wilhelmina's jubilee, 58-year-old Composer Hendrik Andriessen, director of The Hague's Royal Conservatory, had written a new score for an old drama. The grisly story, adopted by Dutch Poet Jan Engelman from one of the episodes in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, tells how pure-voiced Philomela is raped by Tereus, her brother-in-law, who cuts out her tongue to enforce her silence. The sisters get revenge by feeding Tereus the remains of his slaughtered son at a banquet. At that point the gods intervene and change all three into birds-Philomela into...
There are several songs in this picture, including a ballad called "baby Won't You Say You Love Me" and "Wilhelmina, The Cutest Little Girl in Copenhagen." The former is the key to Miss Grable's downfall because what little voice she has is not sufficient to sustain a note. Unfortunately the number has several sustained notes...
Radcliffe's Young Progressives' President, Wilhelmina Davis '52, yesterday claimed that her organization, which lost its charter at the last Student Council session, had received no word of the deadline for rechartering and had every intention of remaining an Annex club...
...Queen Wilhelmina asked me to return the decoration which she had once bestowed on me. And do you know why? A newspaper poll once revealed that Mengelberg was the most popular name in Holland, and that the Queen held only second place . . ." His secretary apologetically intervened: "He sometimes can't get the facts straight any more...