RUMANIA: Carol & Things

Things done last week by Carol II, last reigning Hohenzollern, "by the Grace of God King of Rumania":

He Ordered from Indianapolis a 265-h. p. Duesenberg. (His new-car-of-the-month for September was a front-drive Cord.)

He Cabled to George V, received a reply—the first personal message sent to Rumania's new king by Great Britain's old one, who did not receive him when he was last in England with his henna-haired mistress, Magda Lupescu.

In his cable Carol II thanked George V for the courtesy visit in Rumanian waters of a British cruiser...

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