Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masque of Kings - Why Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary shot himself and his mistress, powerfully and credibly explained by Maxwell Anderson...
GOLDEN FLEECE: THE STORY OF FRANZ JOSEPH & ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA-Bertita Harding-Bobbs-Merrill...
Franz Joseph, late Emperor of Austria, lived so long that, like his opposite number, Queen Victoria of England, he became an institution. Both these high-principled embodiments of monarchy were young once; both married for love, neither of them ever got over it. But Victoria was lucky, Franz Joseph was not. Many of his misfortunes were due to foreign levies, but malice domestic caused his greatest sorrows. To those numerous U. S. readers who like to peek through the hedge at royalty, Bertita Harding's intimate narrative of Franzi and his wife Sisi will be as good a show...
...Masque of Kings (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer). Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, a rakish young man with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque...
...Blattner of St. Louis & Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis: the world's men's doubles table tennis championship; at Baden, Austria...