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Hours late because of floods and washouts the Simplon-Orient Express from Paris drew wheezing into Bucharest last week, with the Royal Salon...
Speeding from Constantinople the famed Simplon-Orient Express picked up a royal saloon car at Bucharest last week, sped across the Balkans toward Paris. At every terminal crowds surged to glimpse Queen Marie of Rumania. During the run across Jugoslavia a second royal car was coupled to the train. Within rode Queen Marie of Jugoslavia who was thus able to visit her royal mother en passant. For a time the spectacle of two "regular royal queens" distracted attention from Prince Nicholas, 23, and Princess Ileana,, 17, of Rumania who accompanied their mother...
...weighing 283,350 Ibs., is can be driven by one man and will hurtle along at 100 miles an hour with a loaded passenger train in tow. Soon it will be in service on the International Electric Line, racing over the Alps to Berne; plunging through the Simplon tunnel into Italy...
...very early drawing of bridge and cottage in much the mannered style of Turner's masters; an early drawing of a country gentleman's house and ground; "Ehrenbreitstein," probably one of his first continental series; "Devonport," one of the most consummate of the "England and Wales" series; "The Simplon," one of the late Alpine studies; and a rapid study of waves breaking on a beach. The "Tintagel," "Devonport" and "Simplon" form a set of Turner's most consummate work in his best periods, hardly to be equalled even in the National Gallery, London. They are worthy of especial attention...
...Francis Bullard '86 of Boston has again lent to the Fogg Museum his beautiful watercolor drawing of Tintagell Castle by Turner. It is now on view in the upper gallery, together with the other Turner drawings which are as follows: "Devonport," "The Simplon," "Mansion with Shaded Grounds," an "Early Drawing," and a "Sketch...