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...Story: In Belgium, Princess Astrid, consort of the Crown Prince, gave birth a fortnight ago to a 7-lb. daughter. Said despatches: "The cradle . . . had been optimistically oufitted in pink, the color for boys, that for a girl being blue."* Said many U. S. newspaper readers: "What! Pink for a BOY? Why, in our family, we have been using pink for GIRLS, blue for boys." A check of U. S. authorities (i. e., leading stores that sell baby equipment) showed: BOYS GIRLS...
...Lord Dunsany's dream play, much read in schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account...
Born. To Princessa Mafalda, 25, consort of Prince Filippo D'Assia and daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; in Rome...
...citizens know that "E.P." stands for "Edward, Prince," fewer still recall that the Province of Alberta was named after Edward's great-grandfather, the Prince Consort Albert; and very few persons indeed realize that the "E. P." Ranch is not a princeling's toy but a strictly paying livestock investment...
Newsgatherers jotted these words briskly, last week in Bucharest as the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania gave out her first interview since the death of her consort, Ferdinand I, and the ascension under a Regency of her five-year-old grandson, King Michael I (TIME, Aug. 1). Soon the Queen Grandmother went on to speak in such vein that she revealed herself once more as a clever and attentive student of all that is written or implied about Her Majesty. She said...