Royal Arrival

Upon the good ship Paris arrived in Manhattan Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, cousin of King George of Britain, younger sister of Queen Marie of Rumania, wife of Cyrille Vladimiro- vitch, self-ordained Tsar of all the Russias (TIME, Nov. 24).

Because it was feared that some impetuous Bolshevik might attempt her life, the authorities sent a bevy of policemen and detectives to meet her. On the journey from the wharf to the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where the Grand Duchess was staying, another bevy of motor-cycle bobbies clattered noisily in front, beside and behind her. Two detectives of the Bomb Squad were detailed to guard Her Imperial Highness throughout her U.S. visit.

Such precautions, while necessary, were none the less an act of courtesy from the U. S. Government, which does not recognize the Bolshevik regime in Russia.

Pestered by pressmen, the Duchess smiled, waved a long narrow hand, refused to talk about politics. She was in the U. S., she said, merely as "a grateful woman." The Monday Opera Club, an organization which provides titled guests for wealthy U. S. hostesses, arranged entertainments for her. On her first night in town, there was an informal dinner in her suite--the guests including Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Princess Cantacuzene-Speransky, Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Mrs. Henry H. Rogers. After dinner, the party went to the Jolson Theatre--minus Mrs. Vanderbilt, who rushed off, apologizing. Later, the Duchess beamed at a school of wriggling debutantes at the Colony Club. The Colonial Dames of America gave a party for her in a Park Avenue Hotel. The engagement pad of her visit recorded leading hostess in New York, Philadelphia, Washington.