We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Left : ■ In 1883, Queen Victoria (Muriel Aked) knights Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans) after the Command Performance of " The Golden Legend ” at the Albert Hall, in “ Gil- bert and Sullivan.” The marriage of Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) and Queen Victoria (Anna Neagle) in ” Sixty Glorious Years.” Above : Prince Albert (Anton Wal- brook) saves his beloved Queen Victoria (Anna Neagle) from an assassin's bullet in ” Victoria the Great.” This same year, 1948, we saw another film of this period, The First Gentleman. In this, Cecil Parker had the role of George, Prince of Wales and Regent of England. This film ended with the frustrated George attend- ing the baptism of the baby daughter of his cousin, the Duke of Kent. This was Victoria, future Queen of England. In December 1937, Her- bert Wilcox gave us Victoria the Great, cover- ing sixty years of her reign, with Anna Neagle as the young Queen and telling of her romantic love story and marriage to Albert, the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook). Inter- woven in this record of her life are many of the stirring events ot her reign, many of them filmed against the actual back- grounds where the real events took place. Beginning on the night of June 20th, 1837, when the eighteen-year-old Princess Victoria was awakened from her sleep to learn that she was now Queen of England, the film took us to her coronation on June 2Sth, 1838, her marriage on February 10th, 1840, and the beginning of her honeymoon trip on the newly-introduced railway train, the death of the Prince Consort in 1861 and her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. This film was followed in 1938 with a com- panion picture. Sixty Glorious Years. This film had the same cast with the added support of the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith, who played the Duke of Wellington. This film was in Technicolor. And in the Technicolor film " Gilbert and Sullivan " we see Muriel Aked as Queen Victoria. This film, directed by Sidney Gilliat for London Films, stars Robert Morley and Maurice Evans in the title roles with Peter Finch as Richard D'Oyly Carte, who built the Savoy Theatre. There are excerpts from eight of the operas with Gilbert's witty librettos and Sullivan’s un- forgettable music. The screenplay also traces the beginnings of many inventions which have revolutionised the British way of life. The early telephone, the inauguration of electricity in the theatre instead of the old-fashioned gas lighting, and the first appearance of the “ horseless carriage ” indicate the amazing scientific progress this country has made during the past fifty years. Left : Jean Pierre Aumont as Prince Leopold. Joan Hop- kins as Princess Charlotte, and Cecil Parker as the Prince Regent, in ” The First Gentleman.”