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...assume, through weeks of gorgeous pageantry, his full imperial station (TIME, Nov. 12, 19). Though the Emperor of Japan has no crown, the pageant was equivalent to a coronation. A concluding event last week was a review in Tokyo Bay of the Japanese Grand Fleet by the Emperor and Empress. Conspicuously in the Imperial suite stood Admiral Togo, great, venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats. This was his day of might! With the plain wooden paddle which is his simple...
...Little Otto" held, last week, his first "Royal Levee" at the old palace in Lequeitio, Spain, where he has been reared by his mother, ex-Empress and Queen Zita (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). Well known is the fact that sympathetic, generous King Alfonso XIII of Spain contributes to the support of young "King Otto...
...EMPRESS OF HEARTS-E. Barring-ton-Dodd, Mead...
...held in the Living Room terminates tonight in what promises to be the biggest whoopee of the season, for special effort has been made to obtain an unusually well known young lady for hostess. The management shows its usual good judgment and happy fortune by the selection of the Empress Josephine for the all important position. Not only does she add the touch of royalty without which no ultra-fashionable gathering is complete, but she also represents the old conservatism of the Dean's office ante-room. Long noted for the maintenance of the older "good form" even...
...Dowager Empress is, today, probably more revered than the Empress because she gave birth to four lusty sons, whereas unfortunate Empress Nagako has had no manchild, but instead two girl-babes, one of whom died (TIME March 19). The Dowager Empress, in addition to her superior powers of generating sons of Heaven, possesses a powerful and intuitive mind, not infrequently consulted by the elder statesmen...