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Will H. Hays, cinema tsar: "We are gathering momentum for an upward swing that will lead the world recovery. American prosperity will rearise, not pale and wan, from the sickbed of wasting remedies but strong and vigorous...
Signed by Duke Borea d'Olmo, invitations to the nuptials of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and Princess Giovanna of Italy bade the guests come last week to "the Cathedral of Assisi," whereas the appointed place had actually been from the first the Church of St. Francis at the other end of the town (TIME...
Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
...trains: i) the Blue Train which brought Marie Jose of Belgium to Rome for her wedding to Italian Crown Prince Umberto; 2) the Maroon Train, generally used by the Italian Royal Family; 3) a more gaudy, less comfortable relic known as the "Old Train" assigned for the wedding to Tsar Boris, his father Ferdinand, brother Cyril, sister Eudoxia...
...good at cyphers and puzzles, he was sent to St. Petersburg under Sir George Buchanan as Secretary to the Ambassador, a post created for him to avoid his taking a Foreign Office examination. It is his boast that he was the last man officially presented to the Tsar at court...