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...Japanese forces. To most Washingtonians it was simply "Sam Hill's Folly." This week, nine years after Sam Hill died, Maryhill Castle (named after his wife Mary Hill) was opened as an art museum. Visitors who climbed the slopes to wander through its 40 rooms found a complete throne room decked with gold furniture from Marie's palace in Bucharest, Marie's crown, coronation robe, and clusters of her jewelry. Pictures had been lent by the Philadelphia and San Francisco Art Museums, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Sam Hill himself had left a collection...
Owing to the combined reasons of illness and a rush of business caused by the war, the New York Rugby Club was unable to get away to meet the rugby fifteen on Saturday. This was to be the decisive test to the Crimson's claim to the throne in the Eastern Rugby Union. Unfortunately it will be impossible to play the game at a latter date...
...return to Paris after a six-week "study tour" of American democracy, Archduke Otto, Habsburg pretender to the throne of Austria, was asked what he thought of the U. S. Presidential campaign. Observed Otto: "No petty wrangling, and no personal rivalries. The national interest dominates...
...Crown Prince's son, Gustaf Adolf, second in line for the throne, married Sybille, Princess of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, whose father recently visited the U. S. as head of the Nazi Red Cross. When Sweden and Germany were expelling each other's nationals in 1936, Gustaf Adolf Jr. trotted off to Berlin to smooth things over with the Nazis. Moreover, in 1937, the Crown Prince's nephew, Prince Carl Jr., married Countess Elsa von Rosen, niece of Göring's friend Eric. Prince Carl was referred to in the German press at that time...
Died. AbdelKader, 88, painter, whose grandfather, Hussein, Dey of Algiers, fled his throne after swatting the French consul with a fly- whisk in 1827 ; after long illness; in Atlantic City. Brought to the U. S. in 1902 by the late Oscar Hammerstein to sing in grand opera, he squandered a $200,000 inheritance, fractured his skull in a train wreck, and, down & out, became an Atlantic City character, lived for the last eleven years rent-free in a corner of one of the municipal airport hangars...