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...Cinemaddict Los Angeles school children might already have been udder-conscious after viewing the capacious, undulant udder of the cow in Mickey Mouse films. These were banned last fortnight by Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays (TIME...
...Reds which sits so becomingly upon a church man, and which accounts in part for his unpopularity with the Pinks of Paris. He said on his return from the Bolshevik-Polish front: "Bolshevism is an atrocious system. Its tyranny is ten times worse than that of the Tsar. I hear now that certain persons are wishing to conclude [French recognition of Russia] . . . It is a shameful thing to make a compact with crime...
...badly bitten man finally slew the beast with an axe. A Russian physician took the victims to Paris. Pasteur treated 16 of them with a new, intensive treatment (two inoculations daily). The three patients who died were treated by the then ordinary method (one inoculation in several days). The Tsar gave Pasteur a diamond cross of the Order of St. Anne and 100,000 francs for Pasteur Institute...
...great was the renown of Anna Pavlova that, like Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, she attracted thousands who had no particular interest in her art. For 20 years and more she was a world figure. She danced for Tsar Nicholas II, for Emperor Frances Joseph of Austria, for Emperor William II of Germany, King Albert of the Belgians, King Alfonso of Spain, King Edward and Queen Alexandra. She danced for Europeans, for Americans, for Chinese and for Zulus, toured in all 350,000 miles. Next year she had intended to return to the U. S., to make some 80 appearances. Because...
EDUCATION OF A PRINCESS-Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia-Viking ($3.50). Few princesses have had such an "education" as Marie, onetime Grand Duchess of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II, now fashion consultant of Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman. Her bitter schooling has not embittered her. "Princes of reigning families are a race apart-a race that has been for centuries shut off in palaces, protected, restricted, compelled to live among its own dreams and illusions. Meantime the world and its needs pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned...