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...Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...
...Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed it to the cameraman, saying with a grin, "Here, take your camera back." Trunks belonging to His Majesty were labeled inconspicuously with his incognito "Duke of Lancaster" but great capitals fully six inches high proclaimed the trunks of MRS. ERNEST SIMPSON...
...first State papers requiring royal signature arrived from London and were signed by His Majesty. When the Nahlin anchored off Corfu, bemonocled King George II of Greece went aboard, but nothing was seen of his eligible sisters, Princess Irene and Princess Catherine. To happy King Edward VIII was attributed by Yugoslavs this prophecy: "There will be no war. The British people do not want one and the World generally had enough unpleasantness during the last...
Engaged. Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, 21, niece of Denmark's Christian X and Norway's Haakon VII, second cousin of Edward VIII; and Count Luitpold zu Castell-Castell of Bavaria, 31; in Copenhagen. Palace gossip had reported her a possible match for Edward VIII...
Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...