Word: habsburg
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...uncle of Archduke Otto of Habsburg, who is pretender to the throne of Austria...
...will soon take Geraldine, 22, as his Queen. She once won a beauty contest, recently has worked in the Hungarian National Museum, selling postcards, but in Albanian eyes her chief attraction is that her grandfather was once Court Chamberlain to Kaiser Franz Josef for whose hoary whiskers and mighty Habsburg name they had if little love, at least an ominous respect...
...film. For the next hour Screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein, Salka Viertel and S. N. Behrman seem undecided what to do for story matter. They fall back on the facts taught in schools about their hero's life. Napoleon divorces Josephine (out of camera range). He arranges to wed Habsburg Marie Louise. Marie Walewska is disgusted. Says she: "'The savior of Europe has become a son-in-law." Not until after the retreat from Moscow does Marie have much more to do with the Emperor, except for bearing him a son. At Elba they are reunited and Marie agrees...
...compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne belongs to Archduke or Kaiser Otto, exiled in Belgium. When experts of the Hungarian general staff advised Admiral Horthy that Ethiopia...
...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...