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Died. Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi, n??e Ethel Bronson, daughter of the late Isaac Bronson of Manhattan; in Rome. The house of Rospigliosi, one of the oldest in Italy, dates back to 1330, was once headed by Pope Clement...
Countess Michael Karolyi, n??e Andrassy, was once considered the most beautiful woman in Hungary, where a very large proportion of women are beautiful. She is not yet 30 years of age and is the step-daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a granddaughter of the famous Count Julius, who was the greatest Minister of State that the Monarchy had had since the passing of Metternich...
Other appointments made: M. de Fleuriau, Minister to Peking, to be Ambassador to Great Britain in place of Comte de Saint Aulaire; Senator Rén?? Besnard to be Ambassador to Italy, displacing M. Barriére, who for 27 years has represented France at Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations...
...first offering was Die Meistersinger, sung by artists selected for stature as well as for voice. All were six-or seven-footers, of Prussian-grenadier proportions. Herr Hermann Weil, of the Metropolitan's pre-War staff, took the role of Hans Sachs, the shoemaker-singer of N??rnberg...
Navigation. A giant submarine cruiser of more than 7,000 tons, invented by Prof. Oswald Flamm, of Germany, has been built in model by the Augsburg-N??rnberger Machin-fabrik. The boat is heartshaped, point upward, with the keel in the groove of the heart, like an inverted V. The principal advantage is rapid and even submersion, the stability depending on the form and the distribution of pressure. It can submerge in 30 seconds without turning a degree, can cruise 20,000 miles and develop a speed of 23 knots an hour. It is 525 ft. long...