Notes

The Prince of Wales, Britain's much-traveled "Ambassador," left England's shores to the thunder of guns, the cheers of hundreds of thousands of his father's subjects and the strains of The Girl I Left Behind Me, rendered by the Royal Marines band, on his 26,000 mile voyage to South Africa and South America (TIME, Mar. 23). At London, Premier Baldwin said good-by in a sprightly 15-minute conversation punctuated frequently by hearty laughter. Prince Henry accompanied his eldest brother to Portsmouth, but Prince George, without tonsils (TIME, Mar. 30), was not permitted by his doctors to sally forth into the raw air of a cold March. The. Sunday Times paid the Prince high tribute : "Millions of his fellow subjects in these isles will miss him as the sauce piquante of our national life."

The Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, cousin of King George, was represented by Admiral Mark Kerr before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. A claim was made for royalties for the Battenberg course indicator--an ingenious and invaluable instrument to navigators, aerial or naval--invented by her late husband, Prince Louis of Battenberg (name changed by King George to Milford Haven in 1917), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914. The claim was sympathetically heard but was thought likely to be disallowed because, at the time of the invention, naval officers were not allowed to sell inventions to the State. Admiral Kerr pleaded that the Dowager Marchioness was in greatly reduced circumstances--a fact considered extraordinary, as her second son, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is married to Britain's wealthiest girl, the former Edwina Ashley, who is said to have inherited $30,000,000 from her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel.

The Duke of Marlborough--like the Dukes of Rutland and Buccleuch, the Marquess of Granby and Viscount Novar--transformed his estates into a "private, unlimited company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about $950,000.

The case of Dennistoun v. Dennistoun (TIME, Mar. 23) came to an end. The jury awarded Mrs. Dennistoun $30,000 damages against her divorced husband, since married to Almina, Dowager Countess of Carnarvon. The question of costs was still under consideration. Immediately after the case, a firm of solicitors in London announced that a "young, unmarried and beautiful" client intended to bring a suit against Colonel Dennistoun for breach of promise. The lady was said to be an American, alleged to be Lois Meredith, cinema star, who, interrogated in Manhattan, did not deny that she was the "young, unmarried and beautiful" woman referred to, but declined to make any positive statement.