Evening star., 1921-04-10

This robe is the distinctive mark of
the Oxford doctorate, and will be
added to four other resplendent
gowns received from the Edinburgh
and Glasgow universities, which dur
ing the last ten years bestowed the
LII D. on the queen consort, and the
universities of London and Of Wales,
which is in recognition Of her pro-
found interest in music and in ma
tionaI schools for its cultivation. be-
slowed the rare honor Of doctor of
music. Queen Mary is a student of
philosophy. and was complimented on
her researches into the early British
sources in relation to the new school
of Herbert Spencer. The Prince of
Wales recently received his Il. A. de-
gree from Oxford. and on the same
mortal to the members of his class
who fell in the late war
Count Edward Zichy, who has been
spending much time in New York and
in this city in the interests of the
private fortune of his mother, who
was the widow of Fernando Yznaga.
and who was Miss Mabel Elizabeth
Wright of New York city. belongs to
one OF the great Magyar clans and
possesses splendid patrimony in the
cheateau Zich. stronghold in the
Carpathian mountains, which was
built in 1345. Count Edward is not
only exceedingly rich and blue-blood-
ed, but he is unusually handsome. He
is just twenty-five. and unmarried.
During his visit to his mothers old
nome he has been extensively enter
tanned. Hungary is the only country
involved in the collapse of the cen
trail empires. which has not abolished
nobility uties-that is. officially. Po-
land. though republic. clings to the
old traditions as tenaciously as
France, and in Bohemia and Jugo-
slavia the hereditary princes and
sense as before 1914. The fortune
which Countess Zichy receives from
the Yzanaga estate is still held by
the alien enemy act. and it is to help
TO unravel the tangle that her eld-
est son has passed the winter in this
though for years member of the
Hungarian parliament. has lived in
England. and all his children were
porn there. The fine lodge at East
bourne adJoins that of the Sheldon
Whitehouscs. which is now the home
of Lady Coventry, who was before
her marriage Miss Lily Whitehouse
sister of the former attache of the
State Department.
Now that the season at Cannes has
ended, some Americans who passed d
few weeks there, declare it the most
brilliant since years before the late
war. At the head of affairs is the
grandson of Isaac Singer, the sew
ing machine genius. who is the Due
Decazes and president of the exclu-
sive Nautical Circle and Sporting Club.
In the membership are some of the
Russian grand duchesses who were
fortunate enough to escape with both
lives and fortunes. notably the Grand
duchess Cyril, who was born an Eng
lish princess, daughter of the Duke of
EdinburG, and who divorced her
boorish spouse, the Duke of Hesse,
to marry her brilliant young cousin,
Cyril. younger brother of the Gar.
The romance caused their expulsion
from the Russian court, though Cyril
was restored to his rights and lost
his life with other Romanoffs during
the peasants uprising. His widow
had never returned to Petrograd, and
enjoys the pension given to all Queen
| EiCtoria's grandchildren, besides her
share in the large private fortune OF
| her father. The Grand Duke Michael
and his wife, the Countess OF Torby
| another exile because his wife did not
| please the Russian court, is also a
| permanent winter resident at Cannes
] the Chief city OF Tia Ereoqh Riviera