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Today, seekers of divorce study the marriage laws with equal perspicacity and success. Prison or matrimony, there is sure to be some land where the laws permit escape. Signora Marconi, Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elena of. Italy, who, before her marriage 20 years ago in England to Scientist Marconi, was the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, fifth daughter of Baron Inchiquin, etc., etc., etc., thought she had found such a land...
Benito Mussolini insulted Queen Marie of Rumania. The Queen's matchmaking plans received a brutal blow. Rumanian policies looking to an entente with Italy, a concordat with the Vatican, not to mention the marriage of Marie's second son to an Italian Princess, were roughly handled by Mussolini's masterful touch. All the Balkan chancellories are in turmoil...
...Recently Queen Marie visited Rome. She saw the Pope and arranged a basis for a concordat. She sniffed around the Italian Court, and selected the Princess Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele, as a suitable helpmeet for her fourth child, Prince Nicholas, now a midshipman on the British cruiser Benbow. With Rumania, foreign policy follows the Queen. She planned a formal visit for herself and King Ferdinand in April, not only to discuss the marriage, but the possibility of closer and more confidential relations between the two Latin nations that flank the turbulent Balkans. The Italian Court sent...
Three Weeks. The producers have done much better by Mrs. Glyn than she has deserved. They have not only featured the tiger skin on which the Queen (Aileen Pringle) does her notorious vamping of the innocent young man (Conrad Nagel), but, they have added a seductive bower of roses for good measure. Abraham Lincoln summed up this sort of product when he said of a book of poems: "For the kind of person who likes this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that he will like...
This ends a three months' struggle to retain the monarchy on the part of the Greek royalists, which became desperate when the first terms of abdication were offered (TIME, Dec. 31). The King, acting on the advice of Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the ubiquitous Queen Marie of Rumania, decided to accept terms which represent a compromise between the Republicans and the Conservatives and Liberals. The latter two will recognize the republic, subject to the following conditions...