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...imminent marriage in Bucharest of Princess Ileana of Rumania and Prince Anton von Habsburg, the bride's sister-in-law, Queen Helen of Rumania would be obliged to 1) appear with her eccentric, unfaithful husband King Carol, or 2) hide away. Last week she avoided both embarrassments by going to the home of her mother, onetime Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece, at Ascot, England. In October she will return to Bucharest for her son, Prince Mihai's tenth birthday...
Closer and closer last week, Carol II edged from Kingship to Dictatorship. He announced that hereafter he will attend every session of the Cabinet. He called to his royal palace his old leering tutor, Professor Nicholas Jorga (the new Prime Minister) and other members of the new Cabinet. To them he said: "I have now found a group of men-yourselves-with whose co-operation I hope to realize my ideals...
...first act of the altruistic-but-wise men and King Carol last week was to decree that hereafter 10% shall be the maximum interest payable by any rural debtor in Rumania. Heretofore village loan sharks have bled many a hard-pressed farmer to economic death by loans at 60% plus...
World's No. 1 courtesan today is Mme Magda Lupescu, red-haired Jewish mistress of King Carol...
...means rich is the mother of King Carol's private secretary. But last week this good woman bought a palace in Bucharest for $65,000. It is intended, affirmed rumor, for Courtesan Magda. No lover of stuffy boudoirs, this healthy, active woman, daughter of a Jewish junkman named Wolff, who became Carol's mistress in 1919. is happiest in the out-of-doors. Therefore a small army of laborers was promptly put to work at altering the palace, re-landscaping its handsome park...