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...Note: The following is an extract from the serial biography of Prince Michael Romanoff, nee Gerguson, an impostor...
...their mouths to make sure that no gusts of breath come out with the sound, to sing into an open umbrella so that the sound of their own voices comes back to them. One old Italian teacher used to train his pupils on the syllables bee-bah-lo-nee exclusively. Methods and phobias outnumber teachers. Alda's teacher, the late great Mathilde Marchesi, who also taught Melba and Calve, would never permit a pupil of hers to have her hair washed...
...only had they killed a score of German soldiers but military authorities imposed the death penalty automatically on enemy soldiers who passed more than a fortnight behind the lines without surrendering. An orderly read out the names: "Henriet, Quartermaster of the Luneville Dragoons, son of M. Henriet & Mme nee de Gail." A German officer sprang up to demand if Quartermaster Henriet was related to the von Gayls of East Prussia. He was. The whole case was reported to the Kaiser by the Grand Duchess of Baden, friend of the family, and the sentences of all 15 men were commuted...
About "Upheaval" the memoirs of Meadame Olga Woronoff, nee Countess Kleiumichel, and Maid of Honor to the late Empress Alexandra. Booth Tarkingten says: "No writer upon the Russian engulfment has printed a more living account of human beings who lived and perished, were heroic and gay, weak, bewildered and absurdly brave during the months of a Terroy--Madame Woronoff is distinguished for her gift of expressiveness--and her narrative seems to me to be so revealing and so alive and so eminently readable that I could not. If would, refrain from saying that it should be read' by everyone interested...
...great-great-grandfather, Major Richaiv. Howell, was Governor of New Jersey eight consecutive [one-year] terms [1793-1801]. He is also the grandfather of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, nee Varina Howell...