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...preparation was of the simplest, involving only the removal of Queen Maria Christina's secular garments and the robing of her corpse in the habit of a nun, for King Alfonso absolutely forbade that the body should be embalmed. He also refused to permit the taking of the usual state photograph of the corpse...
Presently the dead Queen was laid out in the Chapel Royal, garbed in the simple robes of a nun. Thus it was recalled that Maria Christina was in her youth a member of an Austrian order, and used to plight her vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...
...applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought her to the U. S. in the Moscow Art play, Carmencita and Her Soldier; when it was booked in Los Angeles she took a screen test. In California she played the role of the nun in the road company of The Miracle. She was in Forgotten Faces, The Street of Sin. Emil Jannings likes...
Born. A son, William Alexander, the firstborn, to Mrs. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, onetime actress (the nun in The Miracle), campaigner for President-Reject Alfred E. Smith, niece of onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., Boston real estate broker, famed international oarsman, graduate of Groton and Harvard; by Mrs. Elinor Medill Patterson Codman of Chicago, onetime Nun in The Miracle, daughter of famed Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; on the ground of desertion...