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...estate, Balmoral. Before leaving London, the King and Queen attended a U. S. musical comedy, The Vagabond King. Then His Majesty set out for ancient Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, seat of the Duke of Devonshire, while Queen Mary went by another route to sojourn briefly with her brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, at Shotton Hall, Shrewsbury...
Died. Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 82, Marquess of Lansdowne, famed British statesman since the Gladstone ministry; after a short illness, at New Haven, near Clonmel, Ireland...
Therefore, last week, as the press wrote jocularly of "Votes for Flappers," the attitude of one so close to the present Conservative Government as Lord Hugh Cecil was of significant import. His elder brother, the Marquess of Salisbury, sits in the Baldwin Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Another brother is Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, onetime Lord Robert Cecil, famed peace-man. Hence, if the opinion of these potent Cecils upon the woman's suffrage bill is truly mirrored by the words of Lord Hugh Cecil last week, a definite faction...
Reported Engaged. Marcella Duggan, 19, step-daughter of the late Marquess Curzon, famed British statesman; to one Edward Rice, attorney; in London. The Marchioness vehemently denied the report, but it is understood that Miss Duggan escaped from her locked bedroom and is visiting friends...
...Marquess of Salisbury: "A finger has been wagged in my direction. I fail to understand this movement. Was it admonitory...