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...comedy as originally written dea's with three Princesses who were shup up in as many oranges by the Queen Witch whose machinations pervade the dramatic cosmos. The action comes when the Prince there is one naturally seeks for the oranges. It is while on his travels in search of them that Gilbert Seldes has brought him into contact with the modernism's which give the play its strong satiric flavor, and makes it well worth the attention of a student vagabond...
...married, my wife becoming a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elena, which post she seldom filled since our three children became a great care and besides, she used to accompany me everywhere on my yacht, Elettra, aboard which I experimented much. The year 1905 also found me perfecting and patenting a horizontal directional transmitting aerial and predicting that I could soon reach the antipodes more easily than nearby places. 1905 was also notable for me as the year of my company's suit against the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co. (Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently...
Racing across the Atlantic to England last week, the S. S. Berengaria celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner. At the Captain's table sat Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania. At a small table, separate, alone, brooded Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, champion of the independence of women, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was onetime Duchess of Marlborough (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29). Mrs. Belmont avoided other passengers; when asked to speak, refused; between meals sat reading. At times the book would rest in her lap, neglected, while her eyes saw far away...
...bigheaded, slim girl of 20, Queen Victoria of England, signed a charter authorizing the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. to operate its 14 paddle-wheel steamers between England and the West Indies. That shipping business prospered although sometimes the new-fangled engines broke down and the captains had to hoist sails. When modern screw propellers were invented, the Royal Mail was the first to adopt the device. When there happened to be bargains in ships. Royal Mail bought them. Now its fleets, including the 500,000 tons of the White Star Line, count 2,500,000 gross tonnage, the largest...
...might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such different...