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...situation which Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
...Over her head was a borrowed crown that Napoleon I had used when in Rome. First to genuflect came Duke Maximilian of Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off a war in July 1914. The chances that they were paying homage to a future Dowager Empress were better last week than they had been in a long time...
...wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that thirst, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of the present Emperor Haile Selassie ("Power of Trinity") of Abyssinia. From it too sprang his wife and second cousin once removed, the present Empress Waizeru Menen. Last week she followed her ancestress Sheba to Jerusalem...
...throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep always on his gaudiest full-dress behavior toward the Occident. By way of reminding Europe of his highly Biblical pedigree he sent Empress Waizeru Menen to the Holy Land last week to visit its chief Christian shrines...
...character that feature writers love. Hawk-nosed, with a mouth like a wolftrap. Major Fey has a war record even more gallant than that of his Chancellor. There is in the Austrian Army a decoration that could exist in no other country. Marie Antoinette's smart mother the Empress Maria Theresa realized that the Habsburg Archdukes who commanded her divisions were not military geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed. The number of aspirants is limited...