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...between Empire ports. biggest built in Britain since the War. Canadians came by excursion trains to Quebec last week, roared through a new 1 ½ mile-long Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel under the city, came out at a spandy new pier and suddenly beheld the towering white, three-funnelled Empress of Britain...
...From George V and Queen Mary down. British aristocracy gathers every spring on "Varnishing Day" (which opens the London Season) to "oh" and "ah" at what members of the British Royal Academy have done since last spring. Astutely Canadian Pacific turned to Sir John Lavery, R. A. for the "Empress Ballroom" of the Empress of Britain...
Artistically the significance of the Empress of Britain is that she is the first major British ship in modern style. But last week Canadian Pacific officials stressed the fact that she has one Renaissance room, the "Mayfair Lounge," by Sir Charles Allom. In treatment it is not later than King Edward VII, stirs appropriate memories of his mother, Victoria, First Empress of Britain...
Anxious to secure freight at Vancouver, the C. P. R. early in its history chartered three ocean liners. Now its fleet of steamers carries the checkered C. P. R. house flag over Atlantic and Pacific, sometimes around the world. Greatest of the "White Empresses of the Pacific" is Empress of Japan. Greatest on the St. Lawrence-Europe route will soon be Empress of Britain, launched last summer. The ocean-going going and coastal fleet of C. P. R. numbers 57 vessels with a gross tonnage of 468,717. Its inland lake and river fleet has 20 ships...
...first two days after the King's arrival in Paris half the exiled Royalty of Europe flocked to the hotel with messages of condolence. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians called, so did ex-Empress Zita of Austria (Alfonso gave her refuge in Madrid after her downfall). So did Prince Nicholas of Greece, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia. After a day hectic with worry, exhaustion and despair, word came up that Marie of Rumania was downstairs...