Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anxious to put their distinguished guest at ease, the newsvendors invited to sit beside him jovial Viscount Lee of Fareham, who is just now ferreting into corruption at Scotland Yard as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure. The prominence of the chairman's police activities probably disarmed any suspicion on Ambassador Houghton's part that Viscount Lee, who used to be First Lord of the Admiralty, would try to draw him out on the delicate subject of Anglo-U. S. naval rivalry. Lord Lee did just that. Worse, he raised a preliminary laugh...
...Belgrade last week returned King Alexander of Jugoslavia and spouse Queen Marie. Their eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, 5, was at the station, in care of Prime Minister Monsignor Koroshetz, and giggled gleefully, perhaps at King Alexander who has just shaved off his royal mustache...
Since Count Bethlen himself recently intimated that a royal election might be expected soon, his remarks of last week probably meant that the Allied Powers have quietly but firmly informed the Prime Minister that he must deflate his original trial balloon. On Nov. 10, 1921 the Hungarian Government was obliged to assure the Allied Conference of Ambassadors in Paris that no Habsburg would be placed on the Hungarian Throne. The nation, now a "Kingless Kingdom," is technically free to elect anyone not a Habsburg to be King...
Married. John Blythe-Barrymore, 46, volatile prince of a theatrical royal family; and Dolores Costello, 22, famed blonde cinemactress; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Royal Box. The Belmont is the name of a hotel, Belmont is the name of a racetrack, Belmont is the name of a theatre. With the others the Belmont Theatre has much in common: the one caters to transients, guests for a day, a week; the other presents events of speed. Many a speedy transient will have been under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan...