A Humanitarian

Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife Princess Irene, second cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, steamed from Manhattan on the good ship Aquitania.

The Prince, it was said, had come to the U. S. primarily to raise a fund to care for 3,000,000 Russian refugees until they can return to their native land. He came incidentally to sell his own jewels and recover two Rembrandts (TIME, Dec 24, ART) from Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia plutocrat, against whom Felix has pending a lawsuit.

Asked if he were in sympathy with the Grand Duke Nicholas who is trying for a restoration of the Romanovs in Russia, the Prince replied: "No! The Duke's ambitions are political; my ambitions are humanitarian--the aid of the distressed Russians."