Sybil Thorndike credited as playing...
The Queen Dowager
- The Queen Dowager: Sweetly pretty. She should use more mascara. When one is young, one should use a lot of mascara. And when one is old, one should use much more!
- The Queen Dowager: Mr. Northbrook, who was that creature? Was it an anarchist?
- Northbrook: No, ma'am!
- The Queen Dowager: Then who was it?
- Northbrook: A young lady, ma'am, called Miss Elsie Marina.
- The Queen Dowager: [pause] Ah. Fetch her to me.
- The Queen Dowager: Most impressive. And the soldiers facing the procession too. Such a change from the last coronation I attended, the Vas Arabies'. Guns going off like kettledrums and infernal machines and the sky black with smoke. Happily, no fatalities. Except in the crowd. But it all left a very bad impression.
- The Queen Dowager: Most impressive. And the soldiers facing the procession too. Such a change from the last coronation I attended in Bessarabia, with all the shots going off like bombs and the sky black with infernal machines. Happily, no fatalities, except in the crowd.
- The Queen Dowager: My dear, such a night. Not a wink of sleep. Some dreadful drunkard fiddling in the corridor for hours and hours and the night before too, only, not so long. I did not dare go out and stop him, in case he was an anarchist or a Republican or something. One never knows nowadays. So disturbing.