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Thus they paid homage to a lady great in sadness, Marie Charlotte Amelie Augustine Victoire Clementine Leopoldine, daughter of the late King Leopold I of the Belgians, once Empress of Mexico. Her story: At 17 she was the radiant bride of the Archduke Maximilian whose brother was Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary; at 23 Empress of Mexico, set beside Maximilian upon that throne by the Emperor Napoleon III of the French; at 26 a distracted woman, kneeling before Napoleon III, begging him to deliver her husband from the revolted Mexicans, crying when Napoleon III declared he could...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, a daughter; in Manhattan. Mr. Stokowski, famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conductor, married (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926) Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of a founder of Johnson & Johnson, famed medicinal chemical firm. He has one daughter, Sonia, by his previous wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, now New York Evening Post musical critic, from whom he was divorced...
...itself, much of its interest lies in its history. Woven about 1550, probably at Ispahan, it was used in the palace of one of the Safidian monarchs and was later presented to Peter the Great of Russia. In 1698, Peter, wishing to express his appreciation of the hospitality of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, to whom he had paid a visit presented it to his host, and for many years it hung on the walls of the great staircase of the Imperial Palace at Schorbrunn. It was recently sold in London to an American purchaser...
...public, Mr. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery is a name and nothing more...
...everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow has saved the lives of two young Jews, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold; Mr. Hays has defended the civil right of many a Negro. Last week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced that these two potent champions would press the suit of Blanche S. Brookins against the Pullman Co. and the Atlantic Coast Line Railway for damages...