Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome young Austrian (Guy Robertson) is wounded and left behind. Iron enters poor disabled Mr. Robertson's soul when he notices the lecherous glances with which the base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe and fill it to the brim-" whereupon they all start smoking cigarets. Marching By, in spite of its unconsciously jovial libretto, should get credit for some pleasant melodies...
...ceremony took place in London, in the Berkeley Square home of Lady Seaforth, hospital benefactress. Because she asked them and because Mrs. Spahlinger was the Countess Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, member of an Italian ducal family which has become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge...
There is always at least one moment of ridiculous melodrama in the Show. This came last week when the Countess Ida Marie von Claussen, who once challenged President Roosevelt to a duel, hurled a red ribbon at Judge Walter J. Graham. She considered that her toy poodle. Caprice, had been insulted by not getting the blue...
About "Upheaval" the memoirs of Meadame Olga Woronoff, nee Countess Kleiumichel, and Maid of Honor to the late Empress Alexandra. Booth Tarkingten says: "No writer upon the Russian engulfment has printed a more living account of human beings who lived and perished, were heroic and gay, weak, bewildered and absurdly brave during the months of a Terroy--Madame Woronoff is distinguished for her gift of expressiveness--and her narrative seems to me to be so revealing and so alive and so eminently readable that I could not. If would, refrain from saying that it should be read' by everyone interested...
...battle last week. Cinemas in the Settlement re-opened for afternoon performances. There was tea dancing. The 31st U. S. Infantry arrived from Manila to the roaring strains of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres," and officers prepared for a long stay by looking for apartments in town. Reporters interviewed Countess Ciano, better known as Edda Mussolini, wife of the Italian Consul General. She, busy feeding Il Duce's grandson, complained that the curfew law interfered with her social engagements. In Rome her father despatched Admiral Domenico Cavagnari with a cruiser and a destroyer to help protect her and other Italians...