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Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson drove into Hillsboro, Ill. in a 1933 automobile for his first visit to his boyhood home in ten years. Announcing he might soon make a motion picture in Hollywood ("I know everyone there"), he chatted with old friends, bestowed his autograph, took to bed "to catch up on his sleep." Said a Hillsboro hotelman: "We have no criticism of Harry. In fact we glory in his spunk...
...Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself as a high society gatecrasher...
...Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William B. Leeds" gave rise to confusion and that "Princess Xenia" was of doubtful legality, the judge granted her permission to drop her title, revert to her family name, be known henceforth as Xenia Romanoff...
...with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew whither...
...Robert Sherwood and his Broadway wit. This play offers more than sentiment and satire. It offers the quintessence of bubbling dialogue, refined repartee and waltzing love-scenes. It represents all the nuances and emotional fires which lie behind the less bourgeois legends, from Prince Charlie to Prince Mike Romanoff...