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...Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia (died 1865) had experienced for each other an undoubted and romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow as an ox and one of the most obstinately loyal of men. He married his brother's fiancee (1866); and one day he crowned himself Tsar* and her Tsarina...
WILLIAM-E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). When crises arise, strange discrepancies of outlook are often uncovered among intimates. So finds William Nesbitt when his daughter Lydia frankly exchanges a lawfully wed Oliver for a Henry. Of all the family, only William himself and plump, generous Dora fully sympathize...
...Proud Woman. Playwright Richman starts out to write a "character comedy." The story: a provincial maid, about to wed a wealthy Manhattanite, finds all her hopes, plans, thoughts, poisoned by the arrival of her sister who brings a small-town suspicion to the guileless urbanity of the metropolis. Near the end, the sister's meretricious snooping is smartly smacked down; marriage negotiations are resumed. The "comedy of character" fails to concentrate on one principal character. Little episodes of suspicion are heaped, one upon the other, to build up a mound of irritation, but not a real climax. No single...
...Mohammed. Thousands of sheiks, nobly mounted, resplendent in white silk robes, multi-colored burnouses, attended. Beeves, steers, sheep revolved over log fires, fed 8,000 guests. Fountains radiated jeweled light, the populace danced in the streets, fireworks soared. Two other sons and a daughter of the Sultan having been wed at the same time, the potentate offered a new costume to any of his slaves who desired to marry immediately. Thirty-five marriages followed...
Engaged. Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress, famed because four years ago she refused at the church to wed her onetime fiance Allister McCormick (Harvester scion) ; to Bojidar Pouritch, until recently Jugoslav Consul at Chicago...