RUMANIA: Royalty Rambles

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¶ At the Sesquicentennial the royal party attended a ballet performance by the troupe of the once tolerably notable Mile. Loie Fuller. The box was so located that Her Majesty could not see the stage. The Sesquicentennial Management announced ruefully that it had not been able to sell, the boxes at $55 each, as had been expected.

¶ Throughout the week it was reported that Mile. Fuller and her ballet will perform in the chief cities to be visited by Her Majesty who will allegedly attend some 30 times the ballet's performance of her fairy tale, The Lily of Life.

Fifty per cent of the funds so obtained will go to a somewhat nebulous U. S. charity, the Mothers' Memorial Foundation. The remaining 50% will go to the ballet of Mile. Fuller, who originally attracted the notice and reputedly the friendship of Queen Marie by journeying to Rumania and producing there the Queen's several fairy tale dramas.

¶ Manhattanites paid up to $1,000 for boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House when Her Majesty attended there last week a performance by the Fuller ballet.

¶ To representatives of the 48 States assembled in her honor at the Biltmore Hotel. Manhattan, Queen Marie distributed, "as a surprise," 48 sheets of ruled paper with a blue cross on the upper right-hand corner. On each Her Majesty had written with bold upright pen strokes an apostrophe to a state, had signed "MARIE"

¶ Frank N. D. Buchman, "Soul Surgeon" and "Anti-Auto-erotist" invited 150 persons to his Manhattan residence, last week, to meet Queen Marie, to whom he was presented on the Leviathan a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The Queen did not appear. Mr. Buchman wrote "Ambassador Hotel, to meet Queen Marie" with a red pencil on 150 blank white cards. Then he and his guests trooped to Her Majesty's apartments in the Hotel Ambassador, presented their cards, were presented to the Queen.

¶ Having exemplified largesse by distributing $2,000 in tips to the employes of the Hotel Ambassador, Her Majesty was whisked to the Grand Central Terminal where she began her western anabasis.

¶ At West Point she took a severe cold out into the rain to review the cadets on parade. Said the Queen of the Rumanians: "I am a soldier, too."

¶ She passed through Buffalo and approached her 51st birthday.