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...daughters have brought the reigning House of Brooke plenty of headaches. They came to be known as the Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl, in spite of the fact that His Highness the Raja once scornfully pointed out to British newspapers that Sarawak has no legal Princesses. He gave his three daughters proper titles as Miss Leonora Margaret Brooke, Miss Elizabeth Brooke, Miss Nancy Valerie Brooke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: Kingdom Lost | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...first syllables were not mamma, as traditionalists would have predicted, but baba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ice Cream v. Eiskrem | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. -- Miss Baba Madden, Jamaica Plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Girls Coming to '41 Jubilee Tonight | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

Library opinion of Princess Baba was unanimously favorable. "Obviously the most beautiful woman who has ever been in Widener Library" seemed to be the consensus of these preparing for the State Government examination in the Government section of the Reading Room--" An exquisite blonde of Junoesque preparations, didn't you think," just about summed up the English tables, while the Library official who conducted the four contented himself with one of the greatest understatements of the new year. "Um rather an attractive girl, I thought." he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarawak Royal Gire, and Her Wrestler Husband, Inspect Library's Theatre And Ballet Collections | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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