Wealthy Americans Observe London Coronation Scene
In London five hundred million dollars worth of American wealth arrived for the coronation season but kept a low profile. Visitors paid high hotel prices yet avoided grand parties, with many staying in smart hotels or large houses. Notable guests include Joseph E. Davies and Mrs Davies, J R Cromwell and Mrs Cromwell, Count and Countess Haugwitz Von Reventlow, Barbara Hutton, Edward Manville and Mrs Manville, Countess Folke Berna, Stephen Sanford, and Alice Marble among others.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Russia
Joseph E. Davies
Davies
J. R.H. Cromwell
Philadelphia
Cromwell
Doris Duke
Countess Haugwitz von Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth
Regent Park
Edward Manville
New York
Manville
Folke Berna
Sweden
Alice Marble
Stephen Sanford
Selfridge lights up coronation pageant in Oxford Street
Edmund Lowe and Mrs. Lowe visit as candles glow along Gordon Selfridge store in Oxford Street. In Blackfriars the street decorations flash with home-made banners. Selfridge, 74, a long-time London merchant, awaits British citizenship and a knighthood. Eleven sculptors modeled 18 plaster panels, twenty feet high, portraying scenes in the coronation pageant.
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Oxford Street
Gordon Selfridge
Ripon
Wis
Surrey Street
Blackfriars
Thames
London
Selfridge
Mrs Keaton Is Honored On Birthday In Pipestein
Register staff writer notes Pipestein family event for Mrs. L. L. Keaton on a Sunday, a dinner honor amid a pageant with a crown and a towering Peace figure. A robust London scene frame includes a brown-eyed Bobby praising a knighted figure after thirty-two years in London.
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Mrs. Keaton
Register
Princewick
L. L. Keaton
Pipestein
Bobby
Oxford Street
London
Duchess Leads Women at Westminster Queen Ceremony
The Duchess of Northumberland, the most important attendee among the ladies, will accompany the queen and lead the ladies in waiting. Her duties include supporting the canopy over the queen and holding the queen’s scepter while her husband is more prominent in the Westminster spectacle.
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Duke OF Gloucester
Westminster Abbey
Duke OF Beaufort
Queen Mary
Ess
Northumberland
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Canada
Australia
South Africa
India
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Pyrex
Beckley Hardware & Supply Co
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