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...unknown or unbeloved in Leyden. Her great ancestor, William of Orange, founded the University, 352 years ago. Her mother was created an honorary doctor of laws at Leyden (TIME, March 23, 1925). But next September all that is to be officially forgotten. By order of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her only daughter, Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 18, will be known at Leyden simply as "Mejuffrouw Van Buren." Netherlands recalled that among the minor titles of their queen is "Countess Van Buren...
Whatever is royal and at the same time smart and sumptuous, in the Netherlands, will usually be found to appertain to that great lady, the Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...
Opening his study with a phrase which the composer put in one of his letters to Elise Wille, "I ... adorer of women," M. Barthou proceeds to detailed accounts of Wagner's amorous adventures. He was the adorer of many women but most notably three: Minna (Wilhelmina Planer), a stupid, clamorous, third-rate actress whom he married; Mathilde (Mme. Weson-donck) who inspired Tristan; and Cosima (Frau von Bülow, natural daughter of Franz Liszt) who provided the stimulus for the Ring series and whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with...
...Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands: "I do not read the U. S. newspapers, but if I did, last week I might have seen a little story which would have amused me. It was to the effect that the International Acceptance Bank of Manhattan was sending to the Straits Settlements a shipment of $600,000 in gold coins. Reason: the natives of this British Possession who carry on Dutch traditions, believe the head of the Goddess of Liberty to be a representation of my own head, and consequently suitable for wedding presents...
...contemplative. Others strove, he mused. He was fond of saying he viewed things sub specie aeternitatis (from the viewpoint of eternity). Last week Holland began a seven-day demonstration of the 250th anniversary of his death. They unveiled and wreathed a tombstone at the Hague. Queen Wilhelmina sent a representative. Though their hero had refused to teach in any university, 60 institutions sent emissaries. Curator Oko of the world's largest library of the dead man's works, went all the way from Cincinnati. An international congress sat to philosophize in his name...