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...officially denied in Bucharest that the train had been fired on. Officially the Iron Guard announced that it had wanted to kill, not Carol II, but only his "Jewish Pompadour," Mme. Magda Lupescu. But in the Balkans nobody was fooled. An unsuccessful dictator had been driven from his country...
...nothing did she enjoy such un-Shavian homage. A dark, passionate beauty with Italian blood in her veins, she reputedly inspired Burne-Jones to paint, and Kipling to write. The Vampire. In her prime-when she played The Second Mrs.Tanqueray, Magda, Romeo and Juliet, Pelléas and Mélisande-she shared honors with Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry. She knew everybody in England, from Oscar Wilde to Edward VII. She was fearless and formidable, a woman who shared her love letters with the world, who had atrocious manners but a superb air, and a wit that Shaw himself might...
...King Carol and Magda rode out the storm. With Teutonic tenacity he remained faithful to a mistress who grew broad of beam and middleaged...
Once more Rumania grumbled that it was run by a woman behind the throne and all the grievances of Rumania were laid at her feet. According to her critics it was Magda who made or broke Cabinets; it was her scheme, first, to finance the pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Iron Guards (which, incidentally, listed her as No. 1 to be assassinated) only later to get them jailed. A word with this combination Mme Pompadour and Rasputin would do wonders, it was said, and an invitation to her house was tantamount to a royal summons...
Dictator. After King Carol took dictatorial power, he formed a one-party State and made ministers personally responsible to the Crown. As Dictator-King he has handled his power firmly, even discreetly. Magda has retired more & more to her villa, where her hobby is raising white turkeys...