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Last week Otto, as the "Duc de Bar," flew from Lisbon to the U. S. on "a pleasure tour." He was reported to have made only one business appointment (J. P. Morgan) and to have accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation...
Henriette was the notorious governess, "Mademoiselle D," who in 1847 was one of the central figures in the internationally famous murder trial, in Paris, of the Duc de Praslin, who was accused of the hatchet-murder of his voluptuous wife. (Because he committed suicide when arrested, the Praslin case is included among famous unsolved murders...
Rachel Field's fictionized biography centres on Henriette's six years in the Praslin household, emphasizes her genius with children, her unimpeachable tact in dealing with her violently jealous mistress, her innocence of the scandals that linked her name with the handsome Duc, the injustice of contemporaries (among them Victor Hugo) who characterized her as "a rare woman...at once wicked and charming...
Marie Antoinette (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Married at 14 to the fat grandson (Robert Morley) of Louis XV (John Barrymore), Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is bored by court life, with a prince too sluggish to produce an heir. She takes to running about town with the sinister Duc d'Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut), a procedure which leads to a chance meeting with a young Swedish nobleman. Count Axel Fersen (Tyrone Power). Axel and Marie do not hit it off very well at first but a year or two later -just after Marie has made the King angry by calling Madame...
This week the Duc de Guise, bewhiskered pretender to the vanished throne of France, attempted from his Belgian exile to create an impression that what was afoot was a coup to crown him. "We have decided," royally manifestoed Guise again, as he often has before, "to reconquer the throne of our fathers! The monarchy, while protecting the Church, will not be clerical...