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...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann. On April 12, 1836, Manhattan had something to talk about. Pretty Courtesan Ellen Jewett was found strangled in her room. Circumstantial evidence glared at one Robinson, young man-about-town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love...
...Swann's Courtesan, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist...
World's No. 1 courtesan today is Mme Magda Lupescu, red-haired Jewish mistress of King Carol...
Pressure by Courtesan Magda to oust Queen Helen (not merely from power but physically from Rumania) has been merciless for months. Not long ago an English friend of the hard-pressed Queen received word from her that "surrender seems inevitable." Last week Bucharest buzzed with the rumored terms of surrender: Queen Helen was said to have demanded a capital sum which would yield $40,000 in annual interest. His Majesty was said to be beating Her Majesty down, offering "$40,000 a year guaranteed by the Rumanian Government"?a totally different thing...
...means rich is the mother of King Carol's private secretary. But last week this good woman bought a palace in Bucharest for $65,000. It is intended, affirmed rumor, for Courtesan Magda. No lover of stuffy boudoirs, this healthy, active woman, daughter of a Jewish junkman named Wolff, who became Carol's mistress in 1919. is happiest in the out-of-doors. Therefore a small army of laborers was promptly put to work at altering the palace, re-landscaping its handsome park...