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Under the headline-YOU RICH GIRLS, HERE COMES KING SEEKING A BRIDE!, the New York American printed a Universal Service press despatch which announced the imminent world tour of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. According to this report, the King will go to Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin, Copenhagen looking for a princess with whom to mate. If he is unsuccessful, he will come to the U. S. and " unite the Saxe-Coburg und Gotha dynasty with the new aristocracy of wealth...
Manuel, King of Portugal, who abdicated in 1910: "A despatch from Paris stated that I 'hold my own' there, described me as a welcome guest to highest political circles because of my shrewdness in observing, my constant correspondence with German, Italian, Spanish notables-a semi-aesthete, a brilliant conversationalist, an amusing and instructive host...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "In a chapel designed by me in the garden of my villa at Lake Garda I held night rites alone, burned laurel, scattered the ashes over the grave of an unknown soldier there. A newspaper despatch said that the ceremony excited artistic circles, that it was proposed that others perform similar rites for me when...
...Boston), made some pertinent comment upon the recent British newspaper amalgamation, whereby Lords Rothermere (brother of the late Northcliffe) and Beaverbrook (a Canadian Peer) bought from Sir Edward Hulton & Co. that group of papers known as the Hulton Press and comprising The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Chronicle, The Daily Despatch, The Empire News and The Evening Chronicle (all Manchester), The Daily Sketch, The Daily Despatch and The Evening Standard (London...
...reported from Moscow that an " Extraordinary Three," composed of MM. Dzerzhinsky, Trotzky ana Stalin, had been appointed to deal with extreme Bolsheviki. The same despatch said that one Biloborodov, ex-Chairman of the Ekaterinburg Executive Committee, at present ' Commissar of the Interior," who assisted in planning the murder of the Tzar and the Tzarina and their children, has been placed at the "disposal " of the triumvirate...