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...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...
...weeks ago the memoirs of two U. S. women of affairs painted dark portraits of Count Johann von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S. Countess de Chambrun in Shadows Like Myself (TIME, Sept. 28), included the Ambassador among the powerful, devious, tenacious conspirators of the German Embassy who influenced local elections, created social difficulties for the French Embassy. Mary Doyle in Life Was Like That described how she had been sent by the New York World to spy on Bernstorff during his absence from Washington in the hope of uncovering a journalistic sensation. Last week Bernstorff himself...
...without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older brother had been recalled from Washington be cause he "showed more interest in the Y. M. C. A. than in politics." Johann Bernstorff spent eight years in the army before he got into the foreign service in Cairo, London, Belgrade, St. Petersburg. Giving few palpable pictures of his activity, Bernstorff expresses broad liberal views, sharply criticizes German foreign policy after Bismarck, tells a few conventional anecdotes to illustrate the aloofness...
...Addis Ababa last week the German Minister to Ethiopia, Dr. Johann Hans Kirchholtes, put on a clean collar and drove down the road to the onetime Italian legation, now headquarters of Marshal Badoglio. His call on the Italian General was the first recognition of any foreign government that the conquest of Ethiopia is now an accomplished fact. Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels...
...real interest centers in Kati Lanner and Fraus. M. Gravey is well established with the French, and satisfies abundantly with the ingenuous jollity he brings to this part. As a simple-hearted drummer, he has his tribulations imitating the mighty Johann, but as a lover her cannot be impugned. The rest of the players are just about as good. And they can't help pleasing, set as they are in an unbroken spell of rapturous melody...