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...officially sanctioned Soviet chess "king" and "queen" are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The "pawns" bear the insignia of "Pionerki": a political society for children that have not yet reached the age for entry into the Young Communist League...
...Queen Marie of Roumania, famed matchmaker for Balkan dynasties, long ago devised a sentimental formula to account gracefully for her inability to manage her eldest son, the Crown Prince Carpi...
...before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until 1920. When he returned...
...involving the purchase of some allegedly defective airplanes by the Roumanian Government. Every now and then he threatened suicide, although behaving admirably toward Princess Helen, who is said to be gradually going blind. A few weeks ago he failed to return to Bucharest after attending the funeral of the Queen Mother of England. This was not even mentioned in despatches because his frequent "disappearances" with Zyzis have become commonplace...
...Prince Carol of Roumania is stopping at a hotel in Venice, Milan and Lucerne, with a mysterious lady who is really Zyzis and Princess Helen, unless she is a Roumanian-Italian-Polish-Jewess of high rank whom he met while attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious...