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Meanwhile Don Alfonso, last of Spain's Bourbon monarchs, having prudently invested tens of millions of pesetas in foreign bonds and stocks while he sat upon Spain's throne, did not go hungry in exile. Citizen Bourbon will regain little now save two homes, one on the fashionable beach at San Sebastian, another at Santander (both in Rightist Spain). Should the Rebels take Madrid he would again become the owner of seven partly damaged business buildings there, upping his total recovery of property to about $3,500,000. The crown properties (castles, palaces, etc.) are still considered State...
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault's most famous canvas, The Raft of the Medusa,* was painted in 1819, four years after Waterloo. Géricault belonged to the swank Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But among 23 of his pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your...
Engaged. Princess Maria, 23, youngest child of the King & Queen of Italy, provisionally engaged for the last four years to Archduke Otto, Austro-Hungarian Pretender, on condition that he regain his nonexistent throne; now that all hope is gone, to his uncle. Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, 38; in Rome...
Heavily subsidized by the State, the semi-official French news agency Havas, seldom plays big what the Cabinet wants played small. Last week Havas carried on its wires a manifesto issued in dramatic circumstances by the 30-year-old Comte de Paris, son of the 64-year-old Bourbon- Orléans pretender, the Due de Guise...
...explanation: "I had played the horses a lot. I decided to get it back where I lost it." Although last week of his 500 choices in 185 races, 248 finished in the money, he claims no wizardry for Willie Winn, says he takes a bottle of bourbon and a racing form, goes through both simultaneously...