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Speeding from Constantinople the famed Simplon-Orient Express picked up a royal saloon car at Bucharest last week, sped across the Balkans toward Paris. At every terminal crowds surged to glimpse Queen Marie of Rumania. During the run across Jugoslavia a second royal car was coupled to the train. Within rode Queen Marie of Jugoslavia who was thus able to visit her royal mother en passant. For a time the spectacle of two "regular royal queens" distracted attention from Prince Nicholas, 23, and Princess Ileana,, 17, of Rumania who accompanied their mother...
...determination to get the Orient out of Russia he moved his capital away from Moscow, built himself a Versailles, procured a Pompadour, and made hunting into a pageant, trotting out on horseback like a Bourbon, with ribbons, hounds, bugles, spears, and streamers. Because the rug showed a hunting scene he became very fond...
...Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists...
...Orient's big yield was announced from Batavia by Professor Heberlein of the Dutch Medical Service. At Trinil, in Central Java, near the spot where the Dutch medical missionary, Eugene Dubois, found two teeth, a thigh bone and the top of a skull...
Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher of India: "Reaching Berlin on what I said might be my last European tour (for I am 65), I deprecated the notion that there, is in the Orient a 'Yellow Peril,' save in the sense that Christian civilizations in the West, crumbling now, might commit suicide, while the Orient will survive always...