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When a marriageable young man of rank proper to wed one of King Alfonso's daughters (Beatriz, 20; Maria Christina...
...palace in Seville where the court seldom resides except during Seville's famed "Easter Week," an occasion of surpassing splendor. Indeed the squirt-bench had not been used until last week since Edward of Wales visited Seville (TIME, May 30, 1927). The long intervals between the times King Alfonso plays his favorite prac- tical joke keep other Royalties comparatively ignorant that the squirt-bench exists. Ignorant last week was Prince Aymon Robert Marguerite Marie Joseph Turin, Duke of Spoleto, 30, reputed suitor to the Infanta Beatriz...
...King Alfonso led the Prince to an imposing marble bench, and indicated that he should sit down. His weight caused the six concealed jets to squirt. While King Alfonso, the Infanta Beatriz and the Prince's mother, the Duchess of Aosta laughed and laughed, the Italian Prince got up from the squirt-bench and wrung out his clothes as best he could without removing them...
While inaugurating the Spain-to-Chile radio-telephone service, King Alfonso spoke to Captain G. R. White of the S. S. Olympic, 900 mi. west of England: "Hello, Captain, I've just called to say hello. Many years ago I traveled on your boat and I want to find out if she is still running like...
Reported Engaged. H. R. H. the Infanta Beatrice, elder daughter of H. M. King Alfonso of Spain; to Aimone of Savoy and Aosta, Duke of Spoleto, second cousin to the King of Italy, Italian Navy captain. Important to Spanish royalists is the addition of sturdy princes, all of King Alfonso's sons being weakly (TIME...