Word: hapsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last interview given by famed Irish Hunger-Striker Terence McSweeney, Fleet Street began to take Miss Thompson seriously. Soon a roving correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt to regain the Hapsburg throne in 1922. By 1924 she was chief of the Public Ledger-New York Evening Post bureau in Berlin, where her liberal tendencies later ran afoul of the Nazi movement (TIME, Sept. 3, 1934). With this job the first stage of Dorothy Thompson's journalistic career was complete...
...wishing to have himself proclaimed Regent, conferred last week with new French Foreign Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin. In outward profession Starhemberg is an adherent of Otto, but there was every indication that the Prince was highly delighted to hear from M. Flandin last week that France still opposes any Hapsburg restoration. While Otto gloomed, Starhemberg expansively led the retinue of French detectives by whom he was surrounded on evenings of wine, women & warbling in Paris night spots...
...clock--Professor Langer: "Revolution of 1848 in Hapsburg Dom." Harvard...
...delightful tradition of semi-Viennese operetta "The Night Is Young" succeeds in achieving a good deal of the champagne in three-quarter time atmosphere. Evelyn Laye is physically charming and vocally superb as the ballet girl with whom the Hapsburg heir falls in love. Ramon Novarro is smilingly efficient as the unfortunate prince who must give up love for the duties of the throne and the good of his people--a decision which carries little conviction to a 1935 audience which likes to see its princes happy in the arms of their commoner sweethearts. Charles Butterworth and Una Merkel carry...
Ludwig Bemelmans, who decorated his own Hapsburg restaurant in Manhattan and writes and illustrates children's books, has furnished colorful, charming, completely fitting scenery for Noah. Some wild, reedy snatches of music by Louis Horst are effective. But without Pierre Fresnay's superb impersonation of Noah himself, the fantasy would collapse...