Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria, Princess Palatine, Duchesse d'Orleans, known at the Court of Louis XIV as "Madame," lived through most of the long reign of the Roi Soleil, which was fittingly commemorated many years later by Voltaire's Louis Quatorze...
...continuing his remarks, made to a CRIMSON representative yesterday afternoon during a rehearsal of "The Makropoulos Secret" in the Music Building, Mr. Massey declared, "There is nothing in 'Sophie' to be offended at, nothing at all. It is an artificial sophisticated comedy of the time of Louis XIV. It depends for some of its effect on light risque lines, sometimes with double meanings. But it is a superficial play,--insincere, and, I think, quite harmless. It was intended for small sophisticated audiences, and not for general public production...
...last week from His entry into Jerusalem to His vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed: "Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but Thine, be done." After an interval for lunch, the second part (Act VIII to Act XIV) continues to the Condemnation under Pilate. The last part (Act XV to Act XVIII) is the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross). The per- formance also includes Old Testament tableaux. About 700 villagers take part in the play, including children as angels...
Prince Yusupov declared that he had not come to the U. S. to further "any personal ambitions" or any plans to restore the Monarchy. He had come to sell $1,000,000 of jewels -some of which once belonged to Tsar Peter the Great, Catherine II, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He also intended to retrieve his two Rembrandts, A Portrait of a Man, A Portrait of a Woman, worth about $1,000,000, which he pledged to Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia...
...Helena Van Brugh de Kay, with an introduction by the author for American readers. This introduction is not the least interesting part of the volume. Short as it is, it contains a vigorous, damaging deunuciation of the so-called "classic" ages, with one of which, the reign of Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash." The era of Augustus, the era of Leo X, the era of Louis XIV,--all built on the uncertain grounds of repression...