Comings & Goings: Feb. 27, 1928

Visitors in the U. S. last week included:

Mme. Chaliapin. She appears to be Russian. She looks about 45. Tall, with grey eyes and a fair complexion, she has luxuriant dark hair. Last week she landed from the Mauretania to assume in Manhattan the social status of the wife of famed operatic basso Feodor Chaliapin.

They have been known in Paris for some 16 years as an eminently respectable pair. Late last fall he was able to secure a Soviet Russian divorce from his first wife, a Roman Catholic who would not divorce him under the Tsarist regime. Recently he married, in Paris,...

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