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Within an hour toute Paris was agog to learn that Queen Marie had ordered sleeves-long sleeves- on all her daytime frocks and had further defied the mode by order-ing her dresses long-almost ankle length...
...great deal of pussyfooting was indulged in by Rumanian officials at Washington and Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...
Though the Queen's U. S. itinerary was not fixed definitely last week it appeared certain that she would land in Manhattan on Oct. 18, dine the next evening at the White House, and tour the U. S. thereafter until mid-December...
Press Welcome. The Chicago Tribune, which has probably printed more accounts of Prince Carol's amours and Queen Marie's alleged philanderings in Bucharest than any other U. S. newspaper, was guilty of the following editorial gaucherie: "[On the Leviathan Queen Marie] will be surrounded by the deck chairs of her old pals, most of whom have beards, and start their sentences with 'Woof.' Nobody not of the court will be allowed to set foot within a ship's length of the queen...
...press in general displayed a friendly spirit of welcome, gave publicity to a remark made by Lady Astor as she sailed for England last week: "There is no woman in all Europe who has a better War record than Queen Marie. Do you know she went into leprous buildings where all others were afraid to go and where the dead were piled high and people were dying of disease...