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Count Nicolas has had an adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity...
Alexander, onetime Grand Duke of Russia, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Tsar, died in February on the Riviera. In this posthumous book of post-Revolution memoirs he has told, with a cynical eye to U. S. readers, what it felt like to be a Romanoff in exile...
...being formed four years ago no editor touched pencil to the information that it was an organization of "young celibrates" for whom tailcoats would be "de Rigeuer." Some society editors in other cities are as remarkable if not so powerful as Marion Devereux: Boston had until last winter a tsar to match Tsarina Devereux. He was Charles Elmer ("Charlie") Alexander, past 60, of the Transcript, to whose office generations of Sewing Circle and Vincent Club girls beat a path, bearing portraits
...bank holiday, declared a 50% salary cut, to last for three or four weeks while they thought up more effective ways to save their business. By last week, most major studios had resumed paying full salaries to contract employes. After a week of producers' conferences, presided over by Tsar Will Hays, it became possible to see the two main results of the salary cuts and the condition that had produced them...
Died. Prince Zakhari Mdivani of Georgia (South Russia), 65, onetime aide-de-camp of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, father of the much-married Mdivani princes (Serge, David, Alexis); of uremia and heart disease; in Paris...