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Unreeled, Mayerling to Sarajevo retells, sometimes haltingly but always compassionately, the heckled romance of Franz Ferdinand (John Lodge), heir to Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Sophie Chotek (Edwige Feuillere), his morganatic Czech wife. Its numerous revelations of Austrian pre-war court life, quite familiar now to fans long exposed to the Viennese nobility, seem new only in a simpler, more personalized view of Franz Josef (Jean Worms), the scheming Prince Montenuovo (Aime Clariond) and other appendages of the state and social hierarchy. But historically, the film-a logical sequel to 1937's teary, highly successful Mayerling...
...gaunt, Machiavellian man was arrested at the Rumanian frontier. He was onetime Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who had counted Hermann Göring among his hunting friends, escaped Göring's airmen by fleeing to Rumania in September 1939. Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport...
Married. Princess Henriette Schönaich-Carolath, 22, daughter of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern's second wife Princess Hermine; and Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia, 23, son of the ex-Kaiser's sixth son, Prince Joachim Franz Humbert; at Doorn...
Spring Parade (Universal). As a social document, Spring Parade arrives one war too late. Its tender treatment of walrus-mustached old Emperor Franz Josef of Austria leaves the impression that the imperialistic monarchs dethroned after World War I were just costumed Good-fellows whose apparent preoccupation with the pomp of politics could be easily sidetracked in order to help untangle a romance. When Spring Parade's Franz Josef cozily wrinkles his nose at a pretty peasant girl (Deanna Durbin) sometime circa 1896, he means that he is going to make sure she gets the drummer (Robert Cummings...
German patience, Adolf Hitler is fond of reminding the world, is parceled out in limited quantities. Last week the share allotted to Norway ran out. Taking to the radio in Oslo, Reich Commissioner to Norway Josef Terboven announced the end of Norway's Monarchy and Parliament, the dissolution of all political parties except Major Vidkun Quisling's Nasjonal Samling (National Union...