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...staple goods, a staple price; each and every one costs two dollars. If you have not chosen yet, ask that newsdealer to hand you Rodomont (Putnam) by H. Bedford-Jones. Therein two shrewd and muscular sons of American forests swash and buckle about the craggy slopes of Mont St. Michel in the days of Louis XIV. Ham and eggs? Not precisely, but the same principle...
...world tour of forgetfulness until 1920. When he returned, the indomitable Marie (backed by King Ferdinand) saw to it that he married the not positively homely Princess Helen of Greece. Zyzis is the mother of three children, whom Carol admits to be his. The Princess Helen has borne Prince Michel, now a backward and rather sickly child of four...
...thought to have written many before and since. What startled the world was that this time King Ferdinand, instead of hushing up the offer of abdication, rushed it through the Crown Council and ordered the Roumanian Parliament to convene for the purpose of declaring Carol's baby son, Michel, the Crown Prince...
...Discreet observers refrained from attributing a motive to King Ferdinand. They noted well a sentence which dropped from his lips on Jan.1, 1926. Gazing down upon his little grandchild, the King remarked, "So this is my New Year. ..." It was obvious to the dullest wit that the baby Prince Michel is not likely to obstruct the policies of Ferdinand of Hphen-zollern-Sigmaringen and Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Ironists recalled that for many years Ferdinand and Marie were estranged by a tertium quid, Helene Vacarescu...
...libretto for A Light from St. Agnes was taken from a play written and acted by Minnie Maddern Fiske. The theatrical lady placed the scene near her birthplace, in a tough Louisiana town. Toinette (heroine) is the unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when...