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...Queen-Empress Mary arose one morning last week at York Cottage, set off on foot across the fields to Sandringham. "By rights," Sandringham, the Norfolk country seat of British royalty, should have passed to the present sovereigns upon their accession (1910). As a matter of record, the late Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra (TIME, Nov. 30) clung so tenaciously to what she deemed her ipso facto rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred...
...Dowager has passed. Queen Mary-with what feelings who can say?-entered Sandringham last week to direct its renovation into a modern palace. One of the bedrooms has been unlocked only at intervals for 16 years. Within, everything, down to the minutest shirt stud has been kept by order of Alexandra exactly as Edward VII left it. Last week, Queen Mary, in the absence of George V who was hunting in Scotland, ordered and superintended a thorough cleaning preparatory to complete redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom...
Back in the era of good Queen Victoria, there was really only one place to live in Chicago-and that was on the South Side. New York had its brownstone fronts and Fifth Avenue chateaux, but Chicago had only its sprawling gingerbread Gothic and its Prairie Avenue. Sooty railroads, industry, and worst of all, the "black belt" began to creep up to the gingerbread creations. Society surrendered. It began an exodus to the North Side -to Lake Shore Drive, Astor Street, Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. Not so, Julius Rosenwald-he would stand by the South Side. He did not object...
...Majesty Queen Victoria, 64, of Sweden continued last week dangerously ill of a lung disorder complicated by heart attacks, at Solliden, Oeland, Sweden. Her long illness, having lasted through the spring and summer, was deemed crucial...
...Their Majesties twice sought the theatre last week, twice graciously applauded able mummers- U. S. mummers. At the snug Empire Theatre, Fred and Adele Astaire delighted Royalty with that song and dance, Lady Be Good. Next evening Miss Jane Cowl brazened before the grandson of super purist Queen Victoria, in Easy Virtue. From the King-Emperor's vocal chords there issued not, last week, the baleful rebuke with which his grandmama blasted all questionable jests (even one cracked precociously in infancy by the present Edward of Wales) : "We are not amused...