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Died, Mrs. Marion Isabel Angell, wife of President James Rowland Angell of Yale University, mother of James Waterhouse Angell, associate professor of economics at Columbia University, and Mrs. WTilliam Rockefeller McAlpin of Manhattan; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn. President Angell was on the S.S. Minnetonka...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...
...Maria Isabel. Almost forgotten by the press and people of Madrid, Alfonso's aged aunt the Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain was left behind in the Palace when the rest of the family fled. Ill and past 80 years old, looking almost exactly like the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* she was not told of the revolution or of the flight of the family for fear the news would be too much for her. But the frenzy, the shouting in the streets reached even her tired ears...
Republic of '73. Ancient Maria Isabel is one of the few living Spaniards who remembers vividly Spain's first Republic. In 1873 indomitable Maria Isabel (her father bore the surprising name, for a Bourbon consort, of Francis of Assisi) was a young woman of 22, already two years a widow. In 1868, the year of her marriage, her mother Queen Isabella was driven from the throne by an army mutiny. Liberals then proudly announced that the "spurious race of Bourbon" had disappeared forever...
...Lynne (Fox). Mrs. Henry Wood wrote East Lynne in 1861. For 20 years after that it was regarded as a supreme creation. Now someone in the Fox script department has detected that East Lynne is more than a dramatic critic's joke. An old admirer of lovely Lady Isabel causes all her trouble when he takes her, unchaperoned, to a dance, and later goes to her bedroom to tell her of his love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban designed...