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Erect, kinetic and unservile, the great Feldmarschall August von Mackensen arrived, last week, at that nest of sycophants, the chateau of Wilhelm II in Doorn...
...Doorn this stock question is still supposed to be answered unctuously and favorably. But August von Mackensen, the hard, the merciless, the man who whipped Rumania down upon bloody knees, answered Host Hohenzollern thus: "There is not the slightest evidence that the people desire Your Majesty's return...
...another thing, Wilhelm of Doorn learned, last week, that Emil Ludwig's savage best-seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...
...Olympiades in 1896. "Once again it's America against the world."-Typical statement in U. S. newspapers. And so the IXth Olympiad opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck Van der Oye of Doorn. There was a parade of 44 nations, 4,250 athletes, beginning with the Greeks and continuing alphabetically. Cuba was represented by a lone white man; Haiti by a lone Negro. Egyptians wore red fezzes; the rest walked in white pants and blue coats. The U. S. delegation, largest...
Such is one scene in the drama Rasputin, recently produced in Berlin by dynamic modernist-communist Director Erwin Piscator. At the piece there have been no audience-riots-for Berlin playgoers are supremely tolerant-but at Doorn, in the Netherlands, an old man has grown angry, hired lawyers, made threats. Last week the lawyers of Wilhelm of Dorn were successful. From one of the lower Berlin courts they obtained a permanent injunction restraining Director Piscator from placing on his slowly turning globe any actor, mask or dummy in the likeness of Wilhelm...