Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Lanphier has been appearing in connection with the "American Venus," in which she is started with Esther Ralston. The picture appeared at the Metropolitan Theatre two weeks ago, and has moved on, so she is now there on the same program with "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter starring Adolphe Menjou. She expressed a wish that she could visit the University, but time would not permit...
...Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...
...Frau von Tchaikovski" as their former mistress on the basis of certain birthmarks. Dr. Rudness, sometime physician to Nicholas II, now a refugee at Berlin, admitted to correspondents that he had examined the mysterious "Frau," but refused to affirm or deny that she is the Grand Duchess...
...this she meant that before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until...
...does he give away an ermine, once to the Queen of Holland, once to a wench who satisfies him. At Riga he is chased away from the fortifications. At Königsberg he makes the Grand Electress blush, argues with Leibnitz, is trained in gunnery. At Berlin he rapes the Duchess of Mecklenburg. In Holland he learns anatomy and ship building. At Vienna he gets word of a revolution in Russia...