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...Shay, Advertising Manager of the Hollis Street Theatre, will see any applicants for places as "extras" this week. The management will pay the members of the "crown" $1 each for the three minutes which each performance will require...
...eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm of George...
Later in the week Mr. George attempted to dispel the prevailing impression that he is seeking a return to power. "I have had a longer stretch of office than any living man. I have served the Crown and nation in some of the highest offices of State. There's nothing an office can give...
Since then Marlborough House, now enlarged to contain over 100 rooms, has been frequently occupied by royalty. Before he was called to the throne of Belgium, Leopold I rented it from the Crown for ?3,000 a year. It was there, of course, that the present King was born. There, in the great 'Treasure Room," the fabulous riches presented to King Edward on his tour of India are still preserved in seclusion. At present the aged Miss Knollys, lifelong companion of Alexandra, is in charge of Marlborough House, pending its disposition to the Prince of Wales...
...little girl, most mysteriously derived, is living at an English parsonage when the Crown Prince of Nicomedia dies. A general and a count come to claim her for the little comic opera kingdom as its heir presumptive, the daughter of the King's youngest son. For a girl in her early teens, Ernestine Sophie has admittedly a remarkable amount of poise, extraordinary insight and understanding. She likewise develops into an excellent shot with the revolver. So she goes to the intriguing little court and sets it upon its ear. The Princess finds two men who love her dearly, besides...