Surprise, pleasure at discovering that any Japanese is so Occidentally pretty, so Parisianly chic, was the warm reaction of most U. S. citizens last week to Princess Kikuko (Chrysanthemum).
"She is only just out of school!" beamed her bridegroom of a year and two months, Prince Takamatsu, second youngest brother of the Emperor of Japan. Having honeymooned from Japan to Europe and from Europe across the Atlantic, Their Imperial Highnesses landed in Manhattan still with a rapturous, bright-eyed air of finding the world one great big bridal cake.
At City Hall, after crass...
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