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...view from the villa was superb. But Countess Edda Ciano, nee Mussolini, was not interested. "What I want most of all is that my case be settled one way or the other," she said. "There is nothing more unbearable than this waiting...
Home to Jail. In a very different mood was another prominent D.P., haggard Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate...
Died. Margot Asquith, 81, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, witty widow of British Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
...such, Marinka has its points-such as: Composer Kalman's (Sari, Countess Maritza) tuneful if highly derivative music, and Albertina Rasch's conventionally pretty dances. In addition, both Howard Bay's sets and Mary Grant's costumes have a more than popular charm. But more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real...
Divorced. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 40, Navy Commander, eldest son of Britain's late World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Marshall Field; by Countess Beatty, Virginia-born, thrice-married Dorothy Power Hall Sands Beatty, 42; after eight years of marriage (no children); in London. Grounds: adultery...