Word: rasputine
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...critics it was Magda who made or broke Cabinets; it was her scheme, first, to finance the pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Iron Guards (which, incidentally, listed her as No. 1 to be assassinated) only later to get them jailed. A word with this combination Mme Pompadour and Rasputin would do wonders, it was said, and an invitation to her house was tantamount to a royal summons...
...Arndt Stein huffed .hat Actor Power portrayed him not only as a coward, weakling and swindler, but as a faithless husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick, it will be the deepest cut in Hollywood's hide since Russian Princess [rina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, whose Brother helped murder Rasputin, got an estimated $750,000 from M-G-M because a "Princess Natasha" was shown being assaulted by the Mad Monk in Rasputin and the Empress six years...
Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (née Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England...
...Lesseps are naturally numerous. When one of them saw Suez in London last fortnight he called a family meeting in Paris to decide whether to sue Twentieth Century-Fox. Remembering that Princess Irina Youssoupov had received some $900,000 damages from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for having libeled her in Rasputin and the Empress, Twentieth Century-Fox officials hastily offered to show the picture to all the de Lesseps before it was publicly released in France...
Because she has overstayed her leave in the U. S., the Department of Labor ordered the arrest, when found, of Animal Tamer Mme Maria Rasputin Soloviev, statuesque daughter of "Mad Monk" Grigoriy Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace...