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...last week, the S. S. Berengaria celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner. At the Captain's table sat Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Rumania. At a small table, separate, alone, brooded Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, champion of the independence of women, mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, who was onetime Duchess of Marlborough (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29). Mrs. Belmont avoided other passengers; when asked to speak, refused; between meals sat reading. At times the book would rest in her lap, neglected, while her eyes saw far away...
...last week the President received more than 100 visitors. Among them: the Duchess of Hamilton, antivivisectionist, and other British ladies; Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and many an agricultural college president; General Charles H. Sherrill and his Olympic Games Committee; lame duck Senator Harreld of Oklahoma who was defeated in the elections; Major General Lejeune, Commandant of the Marines, who invited the President to a football game...
...they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which she is subjected by the experimenting male. The artist-scientist becomes conscious of the female only when the woman-object threatens...
...street is the property of a peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner...
Several facts seemed to point to an explanation: 1) The former Duchess has married a French Roman Catholic, Lieut.-Col. Jacques Balsan. 2) The Duke has espoused by a Presbyterian marriage the former Gladys Marie Deacon of Boston. 3) The Duke has recently evinced an intention of joining the Roman Catholic Church...