Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Prince Eitel Friedrich, 44, second son of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Mme. Clara Sielchen Schwartz, 52, widow of Opera Singer Joseph Schwartz. Reputed second wealthiest prince in Europe, Eitel Friedrich was divorced in 1927 by the former Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who subsequently married a Berlin police officer...
...course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side of the Atlantic. The publishers of "The Ugly Duchess" report that as far as they have been able to ascertain, no other translation of a German novel has made such a record in the English speaking countries...
...Ugly Duchess--Feuchtwanger...
...Duchess of Wrexe" was dead, but London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside...
...Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind of thing. So she fell miserably in love with her husband, although all he had asked, and still asked, of her was that she bear him companionship-and an heir. This...