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...protested by tendering his resignation, but was asked to withdraw it by the Pope. When Benedict XV died, Merry del Val was strongly mentioned as a possible successor. He liked to play golf, to watch baseball games between U. S. students in Rome. Last summer he visited London, went incognito to Hyde Park, heckled lay Catholic speakers by questioning their beliefs. He said he was greatly reassured by their answers. His brother Marquis Alfonso Merry del Val is the present Spanish Ambassador to Great Britain...
...good talk. Many of the famed are either brusque or secretive with newsmen, strangers. But while Artist Woolf sketches renowned features he says just the things to stimulate the response of renowned personalities. Onetime Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany willingly confessed his identity to Artist Woolf while stopping incognito in Rome, sat for him in a hotel garden, told risqué stories, and, noticing the prevalence of uniforms in the streets, remarked: "The late war was supposed to have been fought to make the world safe for democracy, but does this look like it?" Of his exile at Doom with...
...hours before Tsar Boris was to enter Italy incognito the 50,000 drachma bet seemed as good as won. Suddenly however Cavalier General Ivan Wolkoff left the amorous embers he had been poking up at Rome, rushed to meet and stop Tsar Boris at Vienna. Next day it was announced that a painful ear was the sole reason for the royal migration, and after this had been tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit...
...plot deals with an exiled king and the machinations of the rich American widow who is in love with him to restore him to the throne. As a subplot there is a prince, the destined husband of the king's daughter, who meets the princess incognito so as to be loved for himself alone. Other playwrights have employed dramatic or humorous incidents from nuclei as unpromising as this. But the lines of the present attraction at the Apollo are so amateurish and crudely done that there is no such happy issue. When comedy is the object, the authors take such...
Chatting over a cocktail His Majesty envisioned himself "working away in some big American automobile factory . . . like the Tsar Peter . . . who traveled incognito all over Europe and who did not shirk from taking a job in Dutch and English shipyards to get acquainted with the latest developments...