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Lawless, the newly-formed London Gourmets Club ate plovers' eggs at their second banquet, fortnight ago, washed this typical sportsman's delicacy down with Château d'Yquem 1870 from the cellars of Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...
...famed Adventurer Jacques Lebaudy; Roger Sudreau, Paris detective's son. The late Adventurer Lebaudy was a Frenchman who in 1903 made his yacht a battleship, sailed to Africa, "seized" the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself "Emperor of the Sahara," was exiled by France. He was later slain by his "Empress," onetime Paris actress Marguerite Doliere, at Westbury, L. I., leaving an estate of $4,000,000. "Empress" Lebaudy also is now Mrs. Sudreau, having married the detective. Until recently, both couples sat together at the Cannes, France, baccarat tables, rapidly betting away the estate...
...Empress of Britain. Seated on a workman's hoist at a Glasgow shipyard last week, H. R. H. Princess Mary rose vertically 100 feet in air, was swung onto the deck of the half-completed 40,000 ton Empress of Britain...
Since the Empress of Britain is the largest ship built in Britain since the War (though smaller than such post War leviathans as the French liner lie de France and Germany's Bremen and Europa) the British Royal Family is patriotically cooperating to secure maximum public notice. Thus Princess Mary announced herself "enchanted" last week, and next month Edward of Wales will superintend the launching...
...strike the Imperial note as resoundingly as possible, the new Empress of Britain will be painted in the same colors as the old Medina, which in 1911 carried George V and Queen Mary to India for their Durbar, namely white with a band of royal blue. Proudly the Canadian Pacific Line will announce their new ship as the largest on the St. Lawrence route to Europe. A brand new mammoth dock awaits her at Quebec...