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...another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would be to go to the villa hard by the king's palace and kill red-haired Magda Lupescu, the Jewess whose company Carol cannot long do without, whose power over Carol the Army mortally hates and fears...
...adventure had become a sad denouement. For months in Athens she had befriended Fugitive Samuel Insull. She had successfully smuggled him off on the steamer Maiotis. She had befuddled the Athens police so badly that she faced a charge of perjury. She had rushed off to Rumania to implore Magda Lupescu, King Carol's mistress, to provide asylum for the fugitive. But Insull had not reached that asylum, and Mme Couyoumdjoglou had sailed back to Istanbul only to find that her hero, Insull, was inside a Turkish jail waiting deportation...
...declared throughout the country; all army leaves were canceled; an iron-clad censorship was clapped on the Press. Detectives went out in squads, picking up every known member of the Iron Guard, 1,400 in all. A special bodyguard was set over King Carol's Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu...
...Bratianu National Liberal Party abstained from voting and broken-hearted Vintila died later of apoplexy. King Carol ousted Mihai's mother, Queen Helen (now resident in England under the special favor and protection of George V), and brought to Bucharest his flaunting, red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, daughter of a junk dealer...
...story, "Be Mine Tonight" will be successful because of Magda Snyder's slyness; but as an operetta it will be a sure hit because of Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, which is heard often in the more familiar operas. His next picture "Blossom Time" soon to be released, ought to be worth seeing -- and hearing...