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Barbara Ferris manages her ultimate put-down with a nice poignancy, and Werner plays the self-indulgent artist with the insouciance of a Habsburg bastard. Virginia Maskell, who died last January, is exceptionally beautiful and understated in the thankless role of the wife who is called upon to ask her rival during an improbable three-cornered confrontation in a restaurant, "Do you love music...
...sighed, "Isn't it grand? I don't remember Vienna being so beautiful." Of course he hadn't seen the city since November of 1918, when, as the six-year-old Crown Prince Otto of Austria-Hungary, he was bundled off to exile. Now Dr. Otto Habsburg, 54, of Pocking, West Germany, he has long since renounced his nonexistent throne, denied any claim he might have had to the royal palaces and grounds, and declined even to live in Austria. Nevertheless, Austria's royally spooked Socialists still heard the clanking of imperial chains. "He doesn...
...commissar was living on his prewar farm near Linz. Alerted by Jewish ex-partisans that a big Nazi was in the neighborhood, Wiesenthal checked with the local gendarmery. "The post commander was an old man with a drooping white mustache, probably a relic from the good old Habsburg days. We asked about the big farm on the hill. 'Belongs to Murer. He was in Poland and Russia during the war. He's very popular around the village.' " Wiesenthal managed to get Murer shipped back to Russia for a seven-year prison term...
...Holland's hero helps explain the Magyar weakness. The great Baron Rakóssy and the other lords have just crushed a peasant rebellion and are now squabbling with each other. Rakóssy has his eye on Catharine de Buñez, who is related to the Habsburg emperor, and he gets her; for good measure, he seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants are muttering...
...strategist of the Peoples' Party, the majority party since the Socialists' defeat in last spring's elections, charged them with inciting the workers in "an old trade union tactic tied up with the current demand for higher wages." A leading Austrian author contends that the whole Habsburg fright reflects "the inferiority complex of republicans in a republic, an inner insecurity." After his trip, Otto, now 53 and living near Munich, said that he wished to establish a "precedent" for his right to travel in Austria. Wistfully, he added: "It was the journey of a man who loves...