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...mistress (Lynn Fontanne) of a gaudy, deposed Habsburg (Alfred Lunt, her husband). After the revolution Actress Fontanne had married an eminent psychoanalyst, tried to forget her royal lover. On the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef's birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes place at Frau Lucher's hotel, where once nothing was too good for them. Habsburg and ex-mistress attend. In Frau Lucher many a spectator could catch the likeness of eccentric old Anita Sacher, at whose Viennese hostelry defunct Austrian nobility used to be lavishly entertained free of charge to the envy...
When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was in London for last July's economic conference, Herr Dr. Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...
Last week newsgatherers broke down the reticence of one of the few living people who really know what happened to Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg-a gentle 76-year-old lady, Frau Katharina Schratt...
...gates of Schonbrunn (the summer palace) the Emperor was known simply as "The Colonel." He dearly loved to come over in the evenings and argue with the cook. Gay Austrian officers called him "Herr Schratt" behind his back. For years he used to play tarok (Austrian whist) with Frau Kathe and two old cronies, Herr Palmer, head of the Austrian Bank and a wealthy Jewish banker...
...Frau Kathe never asked for money, but she never saved. Ever since the War she has lived quietly in Vienna, refusing large sums from Austrian and U. S. publishers for her memoirs. Last week the loyal old lady suddenly relented and gave what she insists is the true version of the Mayerling tragedy. Said...