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...thousands if not millions of Rumanians slipped from hand to hand with many a smirk picture postcards which suddenly appeared throughout the Kingdom. They showed a man with the head of King Carol holding on his lap a woman with the head of His Majesty's mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu. Purple in the face, a Court spokesman spluttered that "dastard enemies of His Majesty the King have concocted these slanderous photographs from models on whom heads have apparently been superimposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Rex Audax | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Crown Prince Mihai would still be enjoying a holiday with his mother in Britain this week if he had not read the Continental edition of the Daily Mail three weeks ago in Paris. In that paper was a squib about King Carol's mistress, red-haired Magda Lupescu. It was an old story to the rest of the world, but news to Crown Prince Mihai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Untrue! Unjust! Unfair! | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Bucharest red-haired Magda Lupescu, mistress of King Carol, has been openly appearing at social gatherings of late, openly flaunting the fact that she has ousted Queen Helen. Fortunately Rumania has an able diplomat and statesman, M. Nicholas Titulescu, high in the graces of the Great Powers. He, Rumanian Minister to Great Britain, was in Switzerland last week as President of the Assembly of the League of Nations and Chief Rumanian Delegate to the Geneva Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Ominous Rist | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...finally made his debut, eating a red apple in the family tradition, at a Chicago performance of Magda. Comfortably settled now in Hollywood, John Barrymore is supposed to have worn the same felt hat since the day he arrived. He speaks of the cinema and its moguls with witty contempt but sees to it that, when feasible, he is photographed from the left side, and shown, at one moment or another, puffing on a pipe. Gossipmongers, picturing him as an eccentric, are delighted by the fact that he has the only privately owned dinosaur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reunion in Hollywood | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Beside herself with all this talk of marriage, King Carol's red-haired mistress Magda Lupescu renounced the Jewish faith, announced that she would qualify herself to become Queen of Rumania. Grey-bearded Premier Nicholas Jorga wiped his tired brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Mr, Brosteanu | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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