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...Newark, N. J. jail. Prince Willie had stolen a car and run away with a crown worth $4.500 and the tribal funds because he did not fancy the wife his father had bought for him. Last week near Los Angeles gypsy royalty made more news. Several months ago, swart Mark Adams, who has a little farm in the San Fernando Valley and rules the valley's gypsies with a firm brown hand, was crowned "King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles...
...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...
Gendarmes tried to hasten matters by arresting nut-munching Spada's sweet heart, swart Antoinette Leca...
...small, swart, darting-eyed Auvergnat was happy last week as his special train thundered across five states toward President Herbert Hoover, who is six tones paler...
...Interior, this time with six silver inkstands, gifts from himself and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to Premier Laval and colleagues "in commemoration of the friendly collaboration following President Hoover's moratorium proposal-Paris, July 6, 1931." At the same time Ambassador Edge delivered the White House invitation. Swart little Premier Laval graciously accepted the invitation and the inkstands, remarking facetiously: "We are infinitely touched by your gesture. . . . Your compatriots who, we are told, use only fountain pens, will interpret this as a good-natured compliment to the tenacious habits of our ancient civilization." Arrangements were made...