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...shadow." Not until she was 57 did Princess Victoria ever have a house of her own, and then she bought it chiefly as a place of retirement for her late mother's faithful female servants. Last fortnight they were still serving the Sweetest Sister when Sister Maud, Queen of Norway, arrived to sit by dying Sister Victoria's bed. Of greatly beloved though little known Princess "Toria," the London Press recorded last week that she once played before Paderewski, that she said something to Mark Twain which made the great humorist laugh and that as a little...
While Longone was irritably defending himself, one Doris Maud Underwood, plump Indian soprano who bills herself as Princess Pakanli of the Chickasaw tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
...Holloway Prison police doctors examined with interest last week Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart, a small female with hair falling in ringlets down her back, clad in a child's dress reaching barely to her knees...
According to the Crown prosecutor, Stuart has been playing with dolls, dressing and talking like a child of 11, systematically perpetrating one of the most successful frauds ever practiced upon Royalty-loving Britons. Still indomitable in her pretense last week, Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart insisted: "My parents were married in Westminster Abbey. I am a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...
...Home then went the Right Honorable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare, second Baronet of his line, Privy Councilor, Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India and Honorary Air Commodore of Great Britain, to one of London's most amazing town houses, No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. As gracious Lady Maud Lygon Hoare, a daughter of the Sixth Earl of Beauchamp, has said, "It is full of odds & ends we have picked up," many of them brought from distant lands...