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...Emanuele Orlando, 84, Italy's member of the Big Four who made the Versailles Treaty. The onetime Premier withdrew from public life in 1925, abandoned even the teaching of law when the Fascists asked an oath of loyalty in 1931. Orlando had been living quietly near the Porta Pia, just happened to be passing...
...vegetable plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
...turn up at all the extremities, is new but already familiar to U. S. cinemaddicts. In 1939, on a hurried trip to Hollywood, she made Intermezzo; and all Hollywood learned about her was that she was tall (5 ft., 8 in.), shy, had a husband and a baby named Pia back home in Stockholm...
...next winter she returned, debarked with Pia sleeping in a fur-lined papoose bag slung over her shoulder. This time people learned she is so sensitive she blushes and buries her face in her hands when she blows a line. Before the camera she becomes so intense her stomach often rumbles nervously. Currently occupied as the saloon tart in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, she reports: "It's a nice change. You know, in Hollywood it's like being in a cage; they thrust the parts through the bars, and you take what they give...
Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown...