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Pomp for Hoare. Motto of the House of Hoare is Hora Venit, and last week it seemed indeed that the hour of Sir Samuel and Lady Maud had come. They were still in their big house at No. 18 Cadogan Gardens, but the estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
Only last month this setting of pomp spelled nothing much in London, socially or politically, but, with the new First Lord Sir Samuel and his Lady Maud sailing in, Admiralty House became another thing entirely than what it had been when occupied recently by vague Viscount Monsell. To be definite and final on the gravest issues is Sir Samuel Hoare's major characteristic. He is slender, soft-voiced and a considerate host, but the pale blue of his eyes is that of ice. When he was Secretary of State for India he used to be driven daily...
...planes on a par with the world's best. This week No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale partly because Sir Samuel has been intending to build a house better suited to display his treasures, but chiefly because as First Lord he will reside with Lady Maud at Admiralty House, Whitehall in the sumptuous residence which the aristocratic British Navy provides for its chief...
Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Maud Alice, Lady Cunard, birdlike blonde widow of fox-hunting Sir Bache Cunard. The daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York and known to Mayfair as '"Emerald," Lady Cunard is the mother of exotic Nancy Cunard, whose fondness for Negroes as dancing partners has caused many a raised eyebrow in London and New York...
Meanwhile British destroyers hurried back & forth across the channel escorting to England five kings, the President of France, two queens, four crown princes and a crown princess, 14 princes and ten Foreign Ministers. For one & all were fired salutes. Queen Maud of Norway, only surviving child of Britain's Edward VII, arrived with her tall King Haakon VII; Queen Alexandrine of Denmark with her even taller King Christian X. Sad Leopold III, widower King of the Belgians, came with his brother. Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria left his Tsarina in Sofia...