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...sure that the Duchess of Kent, sister-in-law of King George VI, would get a proper cup of tea at the matinee, the management of London's Scala Theater scurried to a theatrical costumer, laid out $28 to rent a solid gold tea service for the afternoon. Next day, Mayfair gossip that the duchess would announce her engagement to handsome Anthony Eden turned out to be far from solid. Eden's secretary told the Sunday Pictorial: "Not a shred of truth in the rumor...
...Manhattan hospital, the Duchess of Windsor was in "satisfactory condition" after a "minor operative procedure" performed by Dr. Henry Wisdom Cave, president of the American College of Surgeons, and attended by famed Gynecologist Dr. Benjamin P. Watson, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh...
Life Is Terrible. For a man who seems to have found life usually unpleasant and often terrible, Algernon Blackwood has lived quite a lot of it. He was born into the British upper classes, the son of the Duchess of Manchester and her second husband, a gentleman usher to Queen Victoria. Algernon was such a dreamy...
...Cotillion and Christmas Ball in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and at other smaller affairs. Cole Porter's new musical Out of This World opened on Broadway (see THEATER) , and was all but eclipsed on its own opening night when members of the audience spotted the Duke & Duchess of Windsor during intermission and swarmed around them thrusting out pencils and scraps of paper. Not all audiences were that boisterous. New Yorkers crowded Manhattan's begrimed Old Metropolitan Opera House to hear a new production of Die Fledermaus. Across the nation millions observed the holidays by going to church...
...Highest paid: Britain's George VI, with $1,148,000. Denmark's Frederik IX gets $296,671; The Netherlands' Juliana, $263,158; Greece's Paul I, $230,000; Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, $146,000; Norway's Haakon...