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...Sultan had many wives but no son. His adopted daughter, dumpy, 40-year-old Princess Dayang Dayang Piandao tried to seize the throne for herself or her husband (TIME, June 29). As a suffraget and a good friend of matronly Aurora Aragon Quezon, wife of the Commonwealth President she had the support of the Philippine Government which wants to bring the Moros under its thumb...
Against scenery by Sergei Soudeikine which looks vaguely edible, Forbidden Melody unfolds a tangled tale of intrigue and counter-intrigue revolving about the return of King Carol of Rumania to his throne. No one impersonating buck-toothed Carol appears, however, and there is no trace of his red-headed familiar, Magda Lupescu. Sample gag: "Will you pardon me?" "Why certainly-what have you done...
...King George employed the pronouns "we" "us" and "our" in addressing his Lords and Commons, but King Edward insisted upon "I," "me" and "my" in the Speech from the Throne proroguing Parliament, which was read last week, in the absence of His Majesty, by the Earl of Onslow...
...United Kingdom that Edward VIII might marry Mrs. Simpson, His Majesty last spring obtained from the House of Commons the passage of a bill under which his spouse will receive $200,000 per year. In what was considered an allusion by the King to this, the Speech from the Throne declared: "Members of the House of Commons, I thank you for the arrangements you have made for the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the Crown...
...years since Wilhelm II, All Highest Kaiser and War Lord, abdicated as German Emperor, but he was still last week Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club which he founded 49 years ago, just before his accession to the Throne. It placed the Kiel Regatta on a par of nautical swankness with Britain's Cowes Regatta. Last winter German socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm...