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...Only 65 sq. mi. in area, Liechtenstein is one of Europe's tiniest independent states. It is situated between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of 11,500, no army. Present ruler of Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
...Arturo Toscanini came to town via Nurnberg yesterday at half-past eight. He was greeted by Frau Winifred Wagner and at once installed in the Haus Wahnfried, where the distinguished conductor had been invited to live by Frau Wagner...
...died a year ago, a pre-Festival performance of his comic opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld (Blame It All on a Little Hat) was given in the old rococo Margrave's Opera. Came many a Wagnerite, including Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and buxom Frau Wagner who with her four children carries on the dynasty...
...villa high above St. Moritz in Switzerland, a pale and haggard Toscanini was last week recovering from Fascist buffets. Soon he would go to Wahnfried ("Dream-Peace"), the villa Richard Wagner built at Bayreuth. There, as guest of Frau Winifred Wagner (widow of the late Siegfried and director of Bayreuth affairs), he was to begin rehearsals for the opening concert of the summer festival. Because his art demanded tranquillity, he wished no further discussion of the incident. But Italy was behind him; at last the world could view his case whole...
Divorced. Max Reinhardt, German producer (The Miracle, Jedermann) ; from Elise Heims, actress; in Riga, Latvia. Frau Reinhardt, who had refused for twelve years to permit him to divorce her, appealed the decision on the grounds that though he owns property in Riga he is no Latvian but a Czecho-Slovakian citizen...