Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State visitors at Buckingham Palace for three days last week were Rumania's King Carol II and 17-year-old Crown Prince Mihai. In the years after Carol had divorced his wife and temporarily abandoned his throne to live in France with lissome, red-haired Magda Lupescu, daughter of a Jewish druggist, he was persona non grata to the British royal family. Queen Mary refused to have him in her house...
Last week the little King's aplomb was again a matter for comment, this time by his 14,000,000 subjects in Siam, where he arrived for his first visit since his accession to the throne. King Ananda was designated constitutional monarch in 1935 by Siam's Strong Man, Premier and Army Chief Colonel Phya Phahol Pholphayuha Sena, when King Ananda's uncle, childless King Prajadhipok, abdicated. King Ananda Mahidol was allowed to remain in Switzerland to complete his schooling and build up his frail physique, thought unfitted for the wet May-to-October monsoon of Siam...
King of Jazz at this time was fat, jovial Paul Whiteman. But the power behind King Whiteman's throne was a bland, easy-spoken, Manhattan-born Californian named Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe. As Whiteman's arranger. Ferde Grofe dressed up many a sleazy Tin Pan Alley Cinderella and made it the belle of the ball. Even the late George Gershwin's renowned Rhapsody in Blue was a mere sketch until Grofe got hold...
...many was it news last week that a freckled, redheaded, 23-year-old son of a California laundryman had abdicated the throne of amateur tennis, had turned in his four-titled crown for $75,000 in cash. For the past two months it has been common knowledge that Donald Budge, champion of Australia, France, England and the U. S., would sign with Jack Harris (front man for Wilson Sporting Goods Co.) for an indoor barnstorming tour this winter. Last week the papers were signed. Starting January 3, Budge will display his talents opposite Ellsworth Vines in 70 U. S. cities...
Engaged. Princess Maria, 23, youngest child of the King & Queen of Italy, provisionally engaged for the last four years to Archduke Otto, Austro-Hungarian Pretender, on condition that he regain his nonexistent throne; now that all hope is gone, to his uncle. Prince Louis of Bourbon-Parma, 38; in Rome...