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...Wednesday, January 26 III Monday, January 24 IV Friday, January 28 V Friday, January 21 VI Saturday, January 29 VII Wednesday, January 19 VIII Thursday, January 27 IX Thursday, January 27 X Saturday, January 22 XI Monday, January 31 XII Thursday, January 20 XIII Tuesday, January 25 XIV Wednesday, January 19 XV Saturday, January 22 XVI Saturday, January 22 XVII Saturday, January 29 XVIII Saturday, January...
...gates were rusted fast into the open position from which they had not been moved for a century. Throughout that time the French public had wandered freely in and out of the great palace where their "Father" the King, had dwelt "like a man in a glass house." Louis XIV had patiently endured this goldfish life. His successor. Louis XV who became King when he was only five years old, rebelled before he was out of his teens. He built into Versailles a private snuggery known as "the little apartments" (a scant 50 rooms and seven bathrooms), and when this...
Cuckolds Grow Troublesome. "Bucks," as Author Wilson insists on calling Buckingham, was the more striking figure of the two. Born to the purple, he was so handsome, witty and intelligent that Louis XIV was maliciously pleased to describe him as "almost,the only English gentleman he had seen." Buckingham could "fix" anything, from a political treaty to a royal date: it was he, for example, who introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynn and arranged for the King to discover the Duchess of Cleveland in bed with Jack Churchill. He dabbled in chemistry, playwriting, poetry and music, and' his swordsmanship...
Casanova's Big Night (Paramount). "I'll scream for help," the lady protests, and no wonder. The Technicolored thing that has just waddled into her boudoir looks something like Louis XIV converted into a floor lamp. It turns out to be Bob Hope, cast as a sort of tailor's dummy who wishes he were man enough to fill Casanova's britches. And to the lady Hope replies (in a long, low-slung, sports-model voice that slides up to the listener's mental curb and honks suggestively): "I don't need any help...
...Wednesday, June 2 III Thursday, May 27 IV Tuesday, June 1 V Thursday, June 3 VI Wednesday, May 26 VII Friday, May 28 VIII Friday, June 4 IX Friday, June 4 X Tuesday, June 8 XI Monday, June 7 XII Saturday, May 29 XIII Saturday, June 5 XIV Friday, May 28 XV Tuesday, June 8 XVI Tuesday, June 8 XVII Wednesday, May 26 XVIII Wednesday...