Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sainted Mother Marie." A strapping Italian youth enacted the role of Mme. Mesmin, the notorious "Sainted Mother Marie," chief flagellant of the Sadistic order of Notre Dame Des Pleurs, which has flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, France. Attired in a "mother hubbard" and brandishing a knotted rope end, he led the ballet of 20 young men similarly costumed, with their lips painted, their cheeks rouged, their eyebrows plucked...
Bombon a Paris. The scene presented to the opulent clientele of La P'tite Chaumiere was, naturally, the vestry of the church of Mme. Mesmin's recent victim, the Abbe des Noyers at Bombon. The "Abbe," played by a young and sufficiently personable actress, was duly "surprised" and seized by the "ballet," meticulously disrobed and bound; eventually flogged until the police were attracted by the howls of the "Abbe...
Letter. After perusing the many documents willingly displayed by the still personable Mme. Lambrino, correspondents picked out the following letter as that most likely (if genuine) to aid in substantiating her case...
...recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently indicated its conception of the validity of her marriage (1918) to Carol, by declaring it annulled (1919) and granting her a modest pension. Mme. Lambrino's lawyer, Maitre Albert Salmon, has however advanced the theory that this annulment was "illegal" and known to be such by all concerned, including the Roumanian Government. Said Mme. Lambrino tearfully last week: "Only for dynastic reasons did I accept the second marriage contracted by my husband with...
Carol. The abdicated Prince maintained a complete silence. His friends pointed out that it is remarkable, to say the least, that Mme. Lambrino has thus suddenly appeared in Paris, with a Roumanian passport, although it has been widely reported that she was being detained semi-forcibly in Roumania by the Roumanian Government, lest she leave Roumania and rouse all the old scandals once more...