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...devoutly Catholic mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, was rushing to Sofia in her gilded baroque private car caused His Majesty to order a rush-baptism of the babe, Maria Louise, hastily performed in the Palace Chapel by Archbishop Stefan according to Bulgaria's Orthodox rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome a spokesman for the Vatican...
When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see p. 38). In the hold were 311 boxes of gold -$15,000,000 worth-part of Britain's $95,550,000 War debt payment...
Into New York Harbor steamed the storm-battered S. S. Majestic (see p. 28), bearing $15,000,000 in gold, one of the year's great shipments. Down to meet the Majestic went John Pierpont Morgan, not to see the gold but to greet his guest, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, headmaster of Britain's famed Eton College and chaplain to King George, invited to the U. S. by the English Speaking Union's Kentucky branch. In Chicago's Probate Court it was discovered that an old will of the late Utilities Magnate Clement Studebaker Jr., which...
...them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude in Grumpy. Herbert Marshall has divided his time between the stages of London and Manhattan, where he has been seen in These Charming People, The High Road, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and last season, with his wife Edna Best, in There's Always Juliet. Edna Best was in Hollywood last year...
...week a man who wears a metal band to support his head because his neck was broken flying in the War nearly intruded upon frail Professor Piccard's rarefied kingdom. In a specially lightened Bull Pup plane powered with a 550-h. p. Pegasus motor. Chief Test Pilot Cyril Unwins of Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., soared 45,000 ft.- more than eight miles above the Severn Valley. Classified as an "interceptor" in the Royal Air Force, the British fighting pursuit plane, equipped for service, has a ceiling of 28,000 ft. Pilot Unwins had to wait...