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Since their marriage the Duke & Duchess of Windsor have bathed and lolled on beaches, put in an appearance at the Salzburg Festival, made a tour of swank night-spots-all the fun of a carefree honeymoon...
Last week they were in Venice where on the fashionable Lido Beach they entertained the former Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, and her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow.* At a loose end on the last night of their honeymoon the Duke & Duchess hopped into a motorboat, glided through tortuous canals up to the façade of the stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their...
Back at their hotel they gave orders for their bags to be packed, set out next morning for Wasserloenburg Castle, Austria. They were looking forward to a rare treat, a visit from the Duke & Duchess of Kent who had been vacationing in Poland. This would be the first time that the ex-King had had a visit from a member of the Royal Family since his marriage...
Superlatives, Most popular pavilion at the Exposition to judge from the number of visitors thus far: Belgium's. . . . Price of the Van Cleef & Arpels brooch of overlapping leaves in small diamonds and rubies duplicating one bought by the Duke of Windsor for his Duchess: 225,000 francs ($8,300). . . . Greatest achievement from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women...
...animals organization founded in 1897 and supported by voluntary contributions-launched a campaign to rescue from the Continent any of these horses that had survived. The league had little difficulty in tracing them because each bears an identifiable Army mark. Moreover a noted Belgian animal lover, the Dowager Duchess De Croy, provided the league with a list of all the old horses in Belgium. Whenever the League finds a British Warhorse and has enough money on hand, they buy it for about $100, take it to the League's stables in. Brussels, put the horse to grass for perhaps...