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...letter follows: Queen's College, Oxford, England, February...
...Parisian custom of electing at Mi-Careme (mid-Lent) a Queen of Paris from Queens chosen by each of the 20 arrondissements, or wards, in Paris, will be discontinued. A new plan will be pursued by which each arrondissement will choose a " Bee." From these a " Queen-Bee " will be elected for the whole city. The usual festivities will be much curtailed except for the visit to the President. The Bees are to wear their own gowns instead of having " royal robes " supplied. Girls are to be picked for merit rather than for beauty, as formerly...
...Queen Wilhelmina of Holland kissed King Gustavus of Sweden warmly on both cheeks." Afterwards a royal procession wended its way through the streets and received an enthusiastic welcome from the populace. King Gustavus had arrived in The Hague on an official visit...
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, fiancée of the Duke of York: "My future mother-in-law. Queen Mary, presented me with a diamond brooch, formed like a rising...
WILL SHAKESPEARE-Shakespeare is represented as a sort of divine sponge. When properly squeezed by a woman, an immortal play trickles out. Squeezing is done by the overpossessive wife whom he deserts (Winifred Lenihan); by Queen Elizabeth (Haidee Wright) ; and chiefly by the " dark lady of the sonnets " (Katherine Cornell). It is these three stirring performers who make Will Shakespeare excellent...