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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Debutantes from the U. S. who have wintered in Madrid know Alba as the gay Grandee who owns the flock of brown dachshunds. At all his balls and some-times at the King's they romp and yap among the dancers' legs???especially the one called Jimmie. But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin. With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Gay Grandee | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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