Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens at the Mystic Club ball. In 1931 her elder sister, Adele Townsend Jahncke Dotson, reigned over the Mistick Krewe of Comus at the most exclusive of the Mardi Gras balls. "Coco," 21, swims...
...third-generation tombstone-carver. His father was founder and first president of the Memorial Craftsmen. Yet tombstones are not his only interest. He is president and chief benefactor of the Madison (Wis.) Zoo. President Schlimgen could scarcely wait last week for the tombstone convention to close. Back in Madison, Princess, his favorite lioness, had had a litter of cubs...
...Manhattan. "I am," complained he, "the most censored of British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance of the play and one of the ladies in waiting attended for Queen Mary to see if everything was all right. She reported favorably to Her Majesty...
...Having lost his seat in the general election, James Ramsay MacDonald last week won another in a by-election, and the following disclosure was made by Lord Blanesburgh: "Some days before the state opening of Parliament which was canceled owing to Princess Victoria's death, the King summoned MacDonald and said: 'I think it is all wrong that you who have been Prime Minister for so long, merely because you have no seat either in the Lords or the Commons, should not be present at the state opening of Parliament, and accordingly I invite you to attend...
Married. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri, Songstress Mary McCormic; and his ex-sister-in-law, "Princess" Louise Astor Van Men Mdivani, wealthy Manhattan socialite, onetime wife of the late "Prince" Alexis Mdivani; in Palm Beach...