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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Phya Vijitavongs, 52, recently appointed Siamese Minister to the U. S., walked majestically down the gangplank of the Adriatic last week, paused in Manhattan, then left for Washington, accompanied by his son Dej Sudasna, 14, and his daughter Kamala Sudasna, 13. His first official announcement was that the sacred Siamese white elephant, now in the London Zoological Gardens, would be brought to the U. S. for the winter...
...comparatively impecunious young apprentice attorney who had obtained, for Abby, a suspended sentence when she had been nabbed for the second time by an irreverent traffic patrolman. The city room of the American buzzed at the prospect of an old-fashioned beat: 'Daughter of Oil King's Son to Wed Humble Speed Case Benefactor...
Judge Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, 77, son of famed novelist Charles Dickens: "I celebrated my golden wedding last week, rejoiced in my six children and 16 grandchildren, mourned my youngest son who was killed during the war. Lady Dickens' three sisters who were her bridesmaids at our wedding 50 years ago, were with us last week. One came from Germany, one from the U. S., and the third has always lived in London...
Sued for Divorce. By Prince Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; Princess Sophie Charlotte, 47, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He alleged that "her continual efforts to secure employment in the motion picture industry have become a source of humiliation to the House of Hohenzollern." She promptly filed a counter suit accusing him of degeneracy. It was recalled that she married him in 1906, virtually at the command of the Kaiser, who wished to bring the vast wealth of the Oldenburgs within the Hohenzollern family. Should the divorce be granted she is expected to marry...
Born 42 years ago of a Rumanian peasant woman and a Creel smuggler, Panaït Istrati is an unhappy, passionate son of the Balkans with a talent for headlong talespinning that must have come to him from across the Bosporus. He writes out of the life he has led, chiefly here around one Stavro sly peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister...