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Among exiled Greek royalties those who dislike beauteous Marina, Duchess of Kent, insist that this onetime Princess of Greece is a clever, ambitious minx bent on jacking up her husband into something of more consequence than the youngest and willowiest son of Britain's George V. Marina knows that Greek Premier...
...Mahnkey was partly responsible for the magazine's contest, having suggested such an event last spring. Editor Wheeler McMillen, once director of an Ohio country paper, and Editor Russell Lord, who takes more pride in his Maryland farm than in the fact that he edited the Grand Duchess Marie's royal memoirs, adopted the suggestion. Expecting a few bushels of submitted clippings, they got bales. More than a third of the 1,581 items warranted serious consideration. Excited by the response and quality of the material from the nation's most obscure reporters, Editors McMillen & Lord...
...which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name of a lady whom he has sketched in the nude, selects another name at random which happens to be hers. From that point on, experienced...
...unblushing practice of "month counting" was indulged in last week by Mayfair socialites, who recalled that the Duke of Kent was married on Nov. 29, 1934, after the following discreet announcement was made at No. 3 Belgrave Square: "The Duchess of Kent has cancelled her forthcoming engagements and is not undertaking any further functions this summer...
...over the presence of royalty in the audience. After her command performance last week she told the Press: "I have sung before six Kings and three Presidents so last night was no novelty. . . . I had long and interesting talks with the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York. . . ." As for the King and Queen: "Maybe I've already met them but I'm not telling...