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...Archbishop of Wales could not come. Lady Ampthill and Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith sent their regrets. The Archbishop of York thought the use of his name was enough. Professor Hector Hetherington of Moral Philosophy at Liverpool University had a previous engagement. But an immense crowd of "Adults Only" hurried to Central Hall, Westminster and waited breathlessly to hear the real truth about Hon. Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant, onetime Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force...
...quite nice," said candid Margot afterwards, "but you see Mr. Healy has really spoiled me for all other...
...scratchy, amateurish retouching are regained by cleverly arranged profusions of artificial flora, drapery, gimcracks, for Photographer Beaton is admittedly inspired by the early fashion pictures of Lallie Charles in the Sketch and Tatler. Beauties immortalized by Photographer Beaton are apparently chosen for their news value, ranging from angular Margot Asquith, homely Poetess Edith Sitwell (posed as a corpse, clutching a bunch of lilies) and Novelist Virginia Woolf (who protested in the London Spectator at being Beatonified without permission) to such obvious subjects as Dancer Tilly Losch, Cinemactress Marion Davies, and Photographer Beaton's two pretty sisters, Baba and Nancy...
...Married. Margot Einstein, 21, sculptress daughter of Professor Albert Einstein, physicist; and Dr. Dimitri Marianov, Russian scientist-writer who with Fraülein Einstein lately accompanied Sir Rabindranath Tagore on a tour of Soviet Russia's schools; in a Berlin registry office...
...When Margot Einstein was married to Dr. Dimitri Marianov at a Berlin registry office, her father, Physicist Albert Einstein, said that he would attend the ceremony if it could take place in 30 min. He attended in celluloid collar, battered hat, aged raincoat. Impatient when the nuptials took 60 min., he vigorously protested against being photographed. Then he hustled back to his soundproof study. Said his wife: "It was a case of love at first sight with our daughter. Dr. Marianov came to our house several months ago, and from that moment Margot's heart was lost. We think...