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...parting with dour thoughts, Jugoslavs with joy. Reason: Queen Marie of Jugoslavia carried home to Belgrade in her special train, last week, documents transferring to her a huge cash legacy from her late father, King Ferdinand of Rumania (TIME, Aug. i). Generous, the bequest amounts to 80,000,000 lei ($4,800,000), a sour grape for Rumanians, a plump plum for Jugoslavs...
...codicil added to the original will, Prince Carol is cut off from the inheritance of any real estate but is bequeathed some 6,600,000 lei in cash ($400,000). Queen Marie of Jugoslavia cannot, as a foreign sovereign, own Rumanian real estate, and therefore was willed a legacy in cash and securities. The Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania will receive an income and the use of several palaces during life;" but the residual bulk of the king's fortune and estates was willed chiefly to King Michael? ($30,000,000), Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas...
...they could and did let themselves be strewn with island blossoms and lei (wreaths). They were made to feel tremendously important when the Maui left Honolulu by a dozen planes hawking, towering, swooping over the harbor in their honor. A dark shaft struck through their glory when an Army monoplane maneuvered by Lieut. Charles Linton Williams plummeted down and was wrapped, plane and man, in sea death...
...must be immediately admitted that such a sterling opinion was not passed upon it by the majority of the critics. It was called "lei- surely," "diffuse," and "over-decorated." These critics evidently had some subconscious resentment of its lack of sex-appeal, of its subtly pulled punches, of its tragic ending. They seemed to miss the brilliant economy, the unfailing feeling for composition, the somewhat abstract treatment of a legendary story. Probably they are movie critics be- cause they reflect tastes of the movie public. This public will probably reject Siegfried; but this rejection slip in no way implies lack...
...great junket. Breakfasting at their hotel, the Washington delegates sang over their shredded wheat, war-whooped between eggs and coffee. The Hawaiians wore festive yellow lei and broad smiles. There were delegates from Alaska, and even from the South Seas, for whom the whole week was one long holiday...