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...fight, bleed and make themselves "true Germans" Hans and his classmates stage a dueling match with sabres. They thus break the antidueling law of the German Republic, one of the first laws canceled by Adolf Hitler when he became Chancellor. To tempt Hero Hans a beauteous U. S. heiress appears, but Hans scorns a life of ease in the U. S., rushes to do Nazi battle in the streets of Berlin and dies, as did Horst, assassinated by Reds. In the final scene Nazis march triumphant under Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to celebrate Hitler's rise to Chancellor...
...Francisco newshawks who tried to see Doris Duke, 20, richest ($53.000,000) U. S. heiress, daughter of the late Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, were received by her half-brother Walker Patterson Inman. who said Heiress Duke was compelled to leave San Francisco as soon as her presence there became known, that she avoids photographers for fear her features will become easily recognizable to cranks and extortionists. "Everywhere we go it's the same," complained Mr. Inman. "She gets to see a few of the sights, goes out to dinner a few times and then her identity becomes...
After Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) & wife were refused permission to enter Russia with a group of tourists which included Edna Ferber, Ralph Pulitzer and Sugar Heiress Dorothy Spreckels, the Soviet Foreign Office investigated, admitted a misunderstanding, ordered the Connellys be let in at once...
...forth, sold large blocks of it. Financial sleuths estimate her fortune as of 1933 may have dropped to a market value of $20,000,000, of which the income might be $1,000,000 before taxes, a tidy sum but not to be compared with the inheritance of Heiress Doris Duke ($53,000,000), still fair game for the rest of Russia's aristocracy...
Huton lawyers meanwhile saw to it that Barbara's Prince should not become too great an expense. A marriage contract was drawn up granting Prince Alexis a fat dowry but keeping "complete control of the disposition of her entire property" for Heiress Hutton. Included in the contract, but not made public, was the amount Prince Alexis would inherit in case of his wife's death. These details settled, all was ready for a double celebration of the wedding #151; first, in a French registry office, then two days later with burning candles and flowered crowns in the Russian...