Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is little less than a tragedy to the Japanese royal house. Girls in the Orient have no social standing or importance of their own; their position is always derived from the male, either their father or the husband they marry. Therefore, a girl may not succeed to the august throne of Jimmu Tenno, occupied by the present dynasty for 2587 years...
Actually, the line of succession is not endangered by the carelessness of the Imperial Stork, for Hirohito has three brothers?Prince Yasuhito, 25; Prince Nobuhito, 22; Prince Takahito, 11. But nothing can alter the fact that the paramount duty of the Empress is to provide her royal lover with a bouncing baby Crown Prince. The joy of Japan would know no limit, if this happy event should occur...
...partly because the court is still in mourning for the late Emperor Yoshihito, who died last December (TIME, Jan. 3), and partly because there was no disguising the disappointment of the Royal House and the nation in the birth of a second daughter, there will be no great, gay lantern parades, no dancing in the streets, no flowery songs and no flashing oratory, no processions, no fireworks. The new little Princess comes to the Flowery Kingdom unheralded, unsung. Such is the way of the Orient...
Noctovision. Last year's tousle-headed John L. Baird* invited members of the Royal Institution to drop in at his London laboratory for a demonstration of television. The two score gentlemen who went were impressed deeply by the ingenuity of Mr. Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members...
Born. To Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako of Japan, a daughter (7 1/3 Ibs.); in a wooden hall outside the Akaska Palace, where are born all children of the immediate royal family of Japan...