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...trail led from grey Clermont-Ferrand to a brooding château at Lamballe in grey Brittany. Last week, up to the forbidding doors of the château walked a plainclothesman. He walked straight into the revolver of the château's owner, Count Edmé de Vulpian. Into the fray, toting Tommy guns, jumped other secret policemen who had been waiting in the shadows that enveloped the castle. Count Vulpian lowered his revolver and surrendered. A search of his château yielded the blue-bound revolutionary "Plan Bleu." It was found where any reader...
Blonde, chubby Edmée, Lady Owen, whose late stepson Reginald was ex-Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde's first husband, turned up in Manhattan, gaily prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...
...ways in which clever women can endear themselves to men is by playing down to them. Clever men understand this is mere humoring on the clever woman's part, but they like it. E. M. Delafield (née Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture; now Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood) is good at humoring her readers, who liked her Diary of a Provincial Lady, should like The Provincial Lady in London still more...