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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal train was met by Lord Tweedsmuir and his Lady, an escort of Princess Louise Dragoons in scarlet tunics and brass hats, and a landau with two postillions and two footmen-something dug out and refurbished from the Governor General's livery stable. A London-like overcast cloaked the scene, and from the Houses of Parliament sounded a bell that looked and rang like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...season's fifth anti-fascist fiasco. Like the others it falls short in imagination and scope. Unlike the others, it manages-simply as a florid, stagy melodrama-to keep moving. The story of a noble Austrian family who get in dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Edward Lascelles, 50, sister-in-law of Princess Mary's husband, the Earl of Harewood; by her own hand (shooting) ; in Lutterworth, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...week: Leland Whitman Cutler, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair (Said he: "You have me, gentlemen."); Alexis Carrel (to inspect the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical heart in the Medicine and Public Health Building). Dedicating their nations' pavilions were Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu. At the opening of Turkey's two buildings Turkish Ambassador Mehmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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