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From bomb-blasted London came first pictures of rich, resplendent Sir Ibrahim, 67-year-old, martially habilimented Sultan of Johore, and his new Rumanian wife, red-blonde Marcella Mendl...
...Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...
...fell in love with the Sultan as soon as I saw him," cooed Miss Mendl. The lightning courtship of Miss Mendl lasted just twelve days, during which time the Sultan continued to pay occasional visits to the bereaved parents of Miss Hill in efforts to cheer them up. Then last week he put on his khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked...
...what the smart little child will wear, how to get along as a weekend guest, the importance of wearing hats that please men. Included in the verbal menu is a resume of Miss Chase's gay activities since she was last on the air-luncheon with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolf), cocktails with Condé Nast, dinner with the Grand Duchess Marie...
...beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British...