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Noel Marie Joseph Edouard, Marquis de Curieres de Castelnau, was born on Christmas Eve, 1851, the year of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. He was taught to be a good Catholic by the Jesuits and in the 18th year of his life entered the military academy of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Le Capucin Botte | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

Married. Gloria Swanson. 27, cinema actress, to the Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray; in Paris. He is her third husband. Wallace Beery, cinema villain, was first; Herbert K. Somborn of California, second. Both obtained divorces on grounds of desertion. Seriously wounded in the war, the Marquis de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 9, 1925 | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

A century ago, the guest was the aged French general, the Marquis de Lafayette. Last week, the guest was the aged French ambassador, M. Jean Jules Jusserand. The trowel used was the one with which President Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol.* The rites observed were those colorful Masonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

The Davis who is not the defeated Presidential candidate, not the Secretary of Labor, not the Assistant Secretary of War, but the Davis whose given names are Norman Hezekiah, descendant of Snead Davis, a Revolutionary soldier, and who was Under Secretary of State in the Wilson Ad- ministration?this Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Prizes | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

The hour of the reception arrived. At the top of the famous staircase where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Red Letter Day | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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