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...Woman of Affairs is Iris March, Michael Aden's "white, so white" lady, now called Diana Merrick to fool Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who objected to The Green Hat. As a protector of public morals, Mr. Hays will no doubt shiver when the loose ring, symbol of Miss Merrick's character, slips gently from the tapering hand of Greta Garbo, flung sideways on a sofa which she does not occupy alone. Like Author Arlen and unlike Will H. Hays, Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows...
Died. Harry Coulby, 64, of Cleveland, ("Tsar of the Great Lakes"), ship and steel tycoon (Interlakes Steamship Co., Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.); suddenly; in London...
...Grand Duke Nicholas, so-called "strong man" of the former Russian imperial family, was commander-in-chief of the Russian armies (1914-15), and second cousin of assassinated Tsar Nicholas II and last, whose successor he claimed to be. A leader of glorious victories and masterly retreats, the Grand Duke Nicholas was beloved of thousands of Russian emigres and commanded popularity even among the masses in Russia after the Revolution, to the constant discomfort of the Soviet state...
...incontestably legal heir to Russia's vanished Throne is now the Grand Duke Cyril Yladimirovitch, a bitter rival of Nicholas, who long since proclaimed himself ''Tsar of Russia...
...wise and genuine humanity with which he tempered it. Like Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their uttermost, exultant limit, while always feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians and Rasputin separately, collectively and repeatedly is well known. On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin, should inspect the Crank Duke Nicholas' lines, and the "Debauchee" wired that he was coming. He changed his plans upon receiving...