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...seats built in front of the Church of San Trovaso, a brilliant audience greeted the pageant and its cast. Umberto, Prince of Piedmont and heir to Italy's throne, gave Producer Reinhardt his congratulations. After four performances the "localization" of The Merchant of Venice, arranged to climax the biennial Venetian art exposition, closed...
...marched off their cruise ships Wyoming and Arkansas, through the streets of Rome, past helmeted Swiss Guards and into the Vatican. In the long, gilded Hall of the Consistory where His Holiness the Pope is accustomed to receive his Cardinals, they knelt on glistening marble. Pius XI mounted his throne to greet them, made a little speech about the sea as a character-builder, passed up & down the hall to confer his blessing. With that His Holiness thought the audience was over. Not so Midshipman Henry L. ("Hank") Muller of Leonia, N. J., fresh-faced, handsome son of a devout...
...Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks of the Hawaiian Supreme Court. There, with his daughter Helen, Governor Poindexter stood in Queen Lil's throne-room giving formal reception to all and sundry who tramped past the statue of King Kamehamcha I, across the landscaped grounds, and through the Governor's door...
...rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with the U. S. and Great Britain. Though addressed to His Majesty, the sea dogs' demands were...
Louis Philippe was born 16 years before the Revolution in which his godparents, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, lost their heads. The guillotining of his father made Louis Philippe the Orleanist pretender to the throne. When the Government promised to release his imprisoned mother and two brothers if he would go to the U. S. he sailed for Philadelphia...