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Asked if Realmleader Hitler is more attractive to German women today than Kaiser Wilhelm was at the zenith of his youth and power. Countess Sierstorpü observed reflectively: 'Tf the answer is yes, and possibly it is, the reason may be that Hitler is one of the people. How the German woman loves...
...First World War (Fox) starts in 1895 with Germany's old Prince von Bismarck ("The Iron Chancellor") saluting for a cameraman. In 1904, the Prince of Wales is playing soldiers with his sister Mary and brother Albert, the Kaiser is visiting an orphanage, the Tsar is praying for his sick son, Alexis. Chapter II deals with the Balkan Wars in 1912. Chapter III shows the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the declarations of war. The eight chapters that follow are packed with sequences so exciting in themselves and so lightly related to each other that it is almost impossible...
...Grew get his first break in the Service. Any young man who could crawl single-handed into a cave and dispose of a tiger, Teddy Roosevelt decided, deserved promotion. One of Grew's best jobs was done in Germany just before the War, shooting pheasants with the ebullient Kaiser and deftly restraining his own ebullient chief, Ambassador James W. Gerard...
Miss Geraldine Farrar aus New York was the rage in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. One night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing...
Caesar was deaf in his left ear. George III was insane. The Kaiser has a shriveled arm. Andrew Jackson had tuberculosis. Abraham Lincoln suffered from chronic constipation. None of these statements is offensive to U. S. citizens. But when John Gay mentioned the infirmity of a living President of the U. S., angry booing broke loose in the Waukesha hall. A quartet struck up a campaign song, thereby temporarily restoring order. Then Nominee Chapple rose and spoke...