Word: wladimir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private Life. Two years after her coronation Wilhelmina married a dashing young lieutenant of the Prussian Guards, Henry Wladimir Albert Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Prince Henry was fond of meeting up with sea captains and artists, and led a hard life playing second fiddle for 33 years in a severely formal and moral court. The Queen was far from happily married, and the Prince was far from popular with the strict Dutch. Wilhelmina came very near dying from a miscarriage. Her only child, Juliana, the present Heir to the Throne, was born in 1909. The Prince Consort died...
Died. Hendrik Wladimir Albrecht Ernst, 58, Duke of Mecklemburg, modes, self-effacing Prince-Consort of The Netherlands; of heart trouble; at The Hague. He married Queen Wilhelmina...
Hell on Earth solves linguistic difficulties and makes its point by emphasizing the internationalized Negro, who speaks three languages, and the Jew who, having lost his voice in battle, must pantomime his thoughts. Played by Wladimir Sokoloff of the Moscow Art Theatre, the Jew provides good facial expressions when he helps the German (Ernst Busch) with his mending; good sounds when he bellows wordlessly to warn his comrades of a gas attack. Photographed with an eye to symbolism, Hell on Earth is outspoken propaganda when it ends with the question: "Where are the five men going?'' A caption...