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Married. Archduchess Agnes Christine of Habsburg, 20, great-granddaughter of Austria's late Emperor Franz Josef; and Prince Karl Alfred, 38, brother of Franz Josef II, reigning prince of Liechtenstein; in Castle Persenbeug, Austria...
...Habsburg Horrors. Mayerling, in Author Lonyay's account, was merely the last act in a psychopathic melodrama peopled, in its main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...
...soon too far gone to devote himself for long to anything. Out of a mouselike hatred for his father's regime, he wrote a number of anonymous leading articles for the liberal Neues Wiener Tagblatt; but when a radical stood up in Parliament and denounced the House of Habsburg, Rudolph reverted to type and had the man horsewhipped. He spent hours updating his "Register of Conquests"; if the lady was wellborn, she got a silver cigarette box engraved with his signature-if she was a commoner, it bore only his coat of arms...
Bravo! (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone...
...Habsburg anachronism was replaced by the Wilsonian unrealities. The two most important of the new splinter states-Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia-operated on the Habsburg principle of a dominant nationality reigning over subordinate nationalities. Neither they nor their little neighbors could defend themselves. Progress and good intentions had created a power vacuum into which rushed first the Nazis, then the Reds...