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England keeps a leonine eye on all Scandinavia. George Y's introspective sister Maud is Queen of Norway and his mother was Denmark's radiant, regal Alexandra. Last week the most powerful fighting ship on Earth, the 33,900-ton British "superdreadnought" Rodney* hove up to Iceland for a friendly game of Lion & Mouse. The mouse was the trim little Danish orlogsskibe (coast defense ship) Nils Iuel of 4,200 tons. She carried Their Majesties Christian & Alexandrine, King & Queen of Denmark & Iceland, who had come to open amid international jubilation and with Icelandic pomp the "Mother of Parliaments...
...Emma Hammerstein, 47, widow of the late impresario Oscar Hammerstein, a woman once presented at four European regal courts, was found guilty of vagabondage in a Manhattan police court. A detective, whose testimony was substantiated by three patrolmen, said that she had accepted $30 from him in a Manhattan hotel. Following a sentence of one day in jail, her inimical stepson Producer Arthur Hammerstein offered her $50 to be "decent" and clubwomen began raising a fund to combat the "double standard'' in prostitution cases...
...bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated Ammon. deity of wealth and power, consecrated himself solely to Aton. the blinding disc of the sun. His was a short-lived but intense faith. Among its effects was the temporary liberation of Egyptian art from its stilted conventions. The bust of Nefertiti, for example, has naturalistically painted eyes...
Rich, Mr. Washburn did not stint himself in Vienna, one of the cheapest capitals in the world. He lived in almost regal style, butlered, footmanned, flunkied. Mrs. Washburn's balls were of a character to make her the uncrowned queen of the Diplomatic Corps...
...week from their respective publishers: the squat red Almanach de Gotha and long blue Jane's Fighting Ships. In recent years, editing the 167-year-old Almanach de Gotha, "genealogical, diplomatic and statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such families as those of His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa-II-bin-Haroub-bin-Thuwaini, Sultan of Zanzibar; His Highness Maharadjad-hiradja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jan Bahadur...