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...Party. Her grace and charm are real assets in the White House and contribute much to the prestige of the Administration." Conference delegates also heard Miss Majorie Webster discuss "How to Develop Personality"; Miss Ella May Powell on "Music, the World's New Refuge"; and saw a religious pageant with authentic Biblical costumes from the Holy Land...
...sign set up in the middle of the busiest street in Nelson, New Zealand, last week, while Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York, was sick abed in her hotel recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Meanwhile a pageant of 50,000 loyal New Zealanders passed in gala review before the Duke of York, second son of the King-Emperor, now en route to Australia (TIME...
...train, I last week descended a golden staircase in the Bath and Tennis Club, Palm Beach, Fla. Up leaped one Rafaelo Diaz,* in white satin coat and silver trousers, from a throne surrounded by dancing girls. He embraced me and sang an aria from La Gioconda. It was a pageant during a Persian ball which newsgatherers reported as 'most brilliant of the season.' Mr. Diaz was supposed to be a prince out of the Thousand and One Nights; I, Queen of Loveliness...
...railway car, a vast funeral hearse (TIME, Jan. 10), and some 20 miles of road and railroad were built-will never be used again. Numbers. Princes, ambassadors, nobles, and army and navy officers to the number of 12,000 participated in the funeral, while two million commoners looked on. Pageant. At 4 p. m. the streets of Tokyo were closed to traffic of any sort. At 6 p. m. the present Emperor, Hirohito, the Dowager Empress and the three brothers of the Emperor, emerged from the Imperial Palace in their red and gold motors. All electricity was shut...
Recent close association with the efforts of famous men had somewhat addled his brain. He did not realize that clocks do not run backwards smoothly. And so his glorious historical pageant merely peeps groggily from behind the swinging pendulum. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Arthur's nightshirt and Cyrano's nose, but they are distorted to no effect. Yet Lampy slumbers on. He snores. He wheezes. The shades of the past present themselves in a villianous, not to say poisonous, gallimafray...