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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart-touching musical trip back to Europe's 20th Century Golden Age. On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight. Some of the numbers-most of which come from Kalman's Sari and Gypsy Princess, Lehar's Eva and Zigeunerliebe-were not previously available on U. S. records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: October Records | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent two weeks each year. Recently, however, the Palace has been completely renovated, modernized. Comfortable inside last week were Her Majesty, Crown Princess Juliana & husband, Prince Bernhard, & seven-month-old daughter, Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Double Anniversary | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...gamekeepers, his servants and his toddling infants, all of whom gave the Nazi salute as Lord Runciman arrived in formal black jacket, wing collar and black bat tie. Herr Henlein turned up in brown tweed coat, grey flannel slacks and white shoes. Present was the German agent known as "Princess Steffi," who generally operates in London. There she has been hostess to Herr Henlein and to Adolf Hitler's personal agent, Captain Wiedemann (TIME, Aug. 1). From the castle windows the conferees could see the Sudeten Mountains and the German frontier, patrolled unceasingly before their eyes by fighting planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Plums for Nazis | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...most tear-jerking farewells in its 250-year history was said last week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Marches On | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Publishers of the Harewood News are Viscount Lascelles, 15, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 14, sons of George VI's sister, Princess Mary, and the Earl of Harewood. Last fortnight the News, in a special edition mimeographed for an adult garden party at Harewood House, undertook "to settle once and for all" whether the publishers' father is Earl of "Hair-wood," "airwood" or "Harwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pronunciation | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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