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BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
ITALY Progress Oil lamps were replaced by electric, last week, in the rural chateau of His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele at St. Anna Di Valdieri in Northern Italy. Admittedly this belated progress was due to the new local Fascist Mayor, Signer Cavalliero Porta, who caused a hydro-electric power plant to be installed within three months after his inauguration. Last week bulbs glowed in the Royal Chateau for the first time when a gold and ivory button was touched by Their Majesties' eldest spinster daughter, Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria di Savoia, 21, often mentioned as a possible...
...strapping Autocrat's "Old Woman," who died last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the onetime Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, sister of the late British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of the assassinated King George I of Greece, aunt of the present Kings of England, Norway and Denmark, and mother of Tsar Nicholas the Last. To millions of Russians she was once "Matoushka Tsaritsa," their "Dear little Mother-Empress...
...sister Alexandra had to scrimp and make over their old dresses, so poor was their father Prince Christian of Holstein-Glücksburg. Then by astounding good fortune the Great Powers adjusted the vexed Schlesvig-Holstein question by elevating impoverished Prince Christian to be Crown Prince of Denmark, later King Christian...
Finally, some seven years ago, King Christian X of Denmark welcomed home to Copenhagen his Imperial Aunt, and there last week ended the saga of the "Tsaritsa of Tears...