Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several facts seemed to point to an explanation: 1) The former Duchess has married a French Roman Catholic, Lieut.-Col. Jacques Balsan. 2) The Duke has espoused by a Presbyterian marriage the former Gladys Marie Deacon of Boston. 3) The Duke has recently evinced an intention of joining the Roman Catholic Church...
Imperative Request. Not long ago the General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...
Number 7. Another English thriller has visited tired Broadway. Number 7 is the address of a forsaken tenement building which, in the course of a chilling melodrama, houses Scotland Yard detectives, criminals, innocents, relief comedians, all bent upon recapturing the Duchess's stolen jewels. Weird entrances and exits are effected through skylights, windows, doors. Eden Gray, as heroine, lends a touch of beauty. The play, though strictly according to formula, is fairly exciting...
...well, is No. 4,000 in the endless series of mythical kingdom romances. This one recounts the adventures of the Crown Prince of Belgravia, who gives up his heritage so that he may marry a U. S. citizeness, only to learn that she is in reality the grand duchess he was to have been forced to wed. The whole affair is safely routine with one outstanding exception. For Rudolph Schildkraut, father of the film's leading man, gives such a delightful portrayal of an easy-going and life-loving monarch that he not only wins all the acting honors...
...Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME, May 3) the Princess Elizabeth (aged, at present, nearly four months.) During that period their royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of York, (parents of Elizabeth, "the baby who is always smiling") will journey to Australia on the cruiser Renown and there inaugurate the new Australian Capital, Canberra...