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Soon a pretty Tsarist girl, who has Americanized her lame into "Miss Catherine Bary" and became a designer, mounted the stage with a bunch of roses which she extended toward Speaker Kerensky. As he bent forward to accept them she struck him three times across the left cheek with her...
More popular on the program, however, was a series of playlets, Scenes From The Lives Of The Romanovs, during which Ivan the Terrible murdered his son, and Catherine the Great had one of her ladies-in-waiting "flogged through the trap."* The high point of the performance was a scene...
*An invention attributed to Catherine. Court ladies whom she desired to have flogged were made to stand upon a small trap door, clad in the billowy skirts of the period. When the trap was sprung, the victim's clothing prevented her from falling completely through, but exposed her to...
Other marvels: 1) the "stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button...
Their bland and persistent indifference to civil authority has given them, for 400 years, a checkered career. But they have always been good farmers, and many governments have made them, at least for a time, special concessions. Holland has always treated them well; there are 60,000 there. The German...