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...villa, Chateau La Croe on the French Riviera, leased by the Duke & Duchess of Windsor fortnight ago, announced Windsor Castle last week, "does not contain any gold bathtub...
Court circles saw in this denial fresh evidence of the close, brotherly relations of His Majesty and the Duke of Windsor who, annoyed by world-wide press mentions of "Duchess Wallis' 20-carat tub at La Croe" had, perhaps, picked up the telephone, got the King-Emperor to correct the tub story...
...early days of the civil war, Spanish proletarians seized the Madrid palace and handsome park of Alba, part of which was damaged by a Rightist incendiary bomb. Today Alba's most valuable art treasures, such as Goya's portrait of a former Duchess of Alba and canvases by Rubens, Murillo, etc., are hung temporarily in the proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba...
...Vive l' Amérique!", "Vive Monsieur le Président!" echoed in the cobbled streets as Mr. Hoover, accompanied S. Pinkney Tuck, today U. S. Embassy Counselor at Brussels and in Paris often host to the Duchess of Windsor when she was Mrs. Simpson, drove into Lille. Day before, Mr. Hoover had informed correspondents that he was off on a swing through Europe. Asked if he intended to gather political information firsthand, he replied, smiling: "I intend to look and listen...
Blanche knew everybody. He was at Dieppe when it was a favorite spot for poets and painters and when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust...