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Somewhere in the snow-blanketed mountains of eastern Norway, north of Oslo, King Haakon VII and his Government found sanctuary last week. The fugitive Government released in Stockholm a White Book telling how King Haakon was on the verge of making a deal with his "protectors" last fortnight which would have put the Allies in the position of invaders instead of saviors, how it fell through because Hitler redoubled his demands...
...inspired Burne-Jones to paint, and Kipling to write. The Vampire. In her prime-when she played The Second Mrs.Tanqueray, Magda, Romeo and Juliet, Pelléas and Mélisande-she shared honors with Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry. She knew everybody in England, from Oscar Wilde to Edward VII. She was fearless and formidable, a woman who shared her love letters with the world, who had atrocious manners but a superb air, and a wit that Shaw himself might envy...
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...captain's daughter. She changed her name, and in 1890, when she was 19, made her stage debut. Ten years later she was the toast of Manhattan-in Ethel Barrymore's phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...
Died. Prince Aage of Denmark, 52, veteran officer in the French Foreign Legion; after brief illness; in Taza, French Morocco. Cousin of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, King Christian X of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Constantine of Greece, he renounced his rights to the Danish throne when he was 26. Said he then: "It wasn't such a sacrifice...