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...spiritualist, but years ago he invented the hypnotic question, "You do believe in fairies, don't you?"; and ever since some people have enjoyed making believe in Peter Pan or fairies or anything else favorably presented to their notice by Elf Barrie. Last week it was Mary Queen of Scots. The bazaar was in her honor. Proceeds would go to a fund for the purchase and preservation of a house in Jedburgh where Her Majesty once lay sick abed...
...secret is that I walked with Mary Queen of Scots, last night, here in Jedburgh ! Wherever a Scot may be he always has at least one moment in the day when he leans against the nearest object and thinks of Mary Queen of Scots. That's our romantic secret...
...Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial to her late husband, Afric explorer Carl Akeley. The memorial is a stoutly fenced and protected park with a massive gateway above which swings a sign: The Gorilla...
...strapping Autocrat's "Old Woman," who died last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the onetime Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, sister of the late British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of the assassinated King George I of Greece, aunt of the present Kings of England, Norway and Denmark, and mother of Tsar Nicholas the Last. To millions of Russians she was once "Matoushka Tsaritsa," their "Dear little Mother-Empress...
...Nicholas, be Tsar!" But spirit was not in the weakling. When the Empire collapsed Maria Feodorovna removed to the Crimea, later departing on a British gunboat to seek sanctuary with her sister, the Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra...