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...year and more King Albert and Queen Elizabeth have been seriously shopping for a princess. Where to look? Crown Prince Leopold,* for whom the princess was intended, is 24. Therefore the Spanish princesses would be a trifle young: Beatriz, 17, and Maria Christina, 14. Princess Giovanna of Italy is 18, but Rome and Brussels are not so near as they used to be before the appearance of Mussolini with his antipathy for Belgium. Princess Ileana of Rumania, sole unmarried daughter of a Balkan monarch, is of course only...
...adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown habituated to making itself ridiculous over Tsar Boris...
Born. To Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, and Mrs. Martinelli, a daughter, Giovanna (8½ lb.). Her sister Bettina, 10, and brother Antonio, 8, were also born in the U.S. Signor Martinelli, jubilant, banqueted friends...
Last week a quite insignificant Roman shopgirl, Signorina Giovanna Fabbro, attempted suicide by jumping off the great Ponte Cavour into the Tiber, was restrained by Fascist police, lectured by a Fascist magistrate...
Finally it appears that "a mysterious old woman, la vecchia Giovanna , . . taught Benito some of her magic lore. . . . 'My blood tells me,' 'I must listen to my blood,' are phrases sometimes used by this statesman-gladiator, so rational normally in coping with the urgent questions which confront him. 'It is no good!' he will add; 'I ' am like the animals. I feel when things are going to happen?some instinct warns me and I am obliged to follow...