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...accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander Edmund, wearing the smart full-dress of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy...
Soon Mr. Baldwin began to chat: "It is 37 years since I was here before. Then I did not come on a magnificent ship such as the Empress of Australia, but on the old Alaska...
From Calgary the Baldwins would proceed to the smart resort at Banff, Alberta; and thence return through Calgary to Winnipeg, whence they would speed through Ottawa a second time and finally board the Empress of Scotland at North Sydney...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...