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...Mayor Miguel Romauldez of Manila, to pay respects...
Died. General Miguel R. Davila, onetime (1908-09) president of the Honduran provisional government; at Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
Died. Don Miguel, Duke of Braganca, 75, pretender to the crown of Portugal, father-in-law of the onetime Miss Anita Stewart,* daughter of rich William Rhinelander Stewart of New York, at Chateau Seebenstein near Vienna...
Signing. Pen poised, King Alfonso XIII hesitated, last week, over the signing of what is destined to become a historic document. At his side was Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, Grandee of Spain, Dictator under the ample title of President of the Council. His presence seemingly threw a dark shadow over the Spanish crown. The pen descended at the foot of the royal desk. It wrote: "Alfonso...
...INGENIOUS HIDALGO! MIGUEL CERVANTES - Hans Ryner - Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Ingenious also, Arthur Ryner has imagined the biography of Cervantes in the days of his age, when, as he finised Don Quixote and wrote Persiles y Sigismunda, he saw the dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone...