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...than a fifth of its value. To begin with, the blurbs for Wonderful World are black with big names: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Buddy Hackett, Terry-Thomas, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, half a dozen others. The show offers also an album of snapshots, each one approximately the size of Liechtenstein, that dramatically itemize South Germany. And it offers, inserted at intervals in the story, three full-length fairy tales (The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Elves, The Singing Bone], of which the last is wacky enough to make up for not being Grimm-it stars Terry-Thomas...
...Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
HISTORICALLY, the reigning princes ot Liechtenstein have chosen to live outside that hereditary principality, usually in their luxurious Austrian palaces Liechtenstein offers a prince neither size (it is one-seventeenth the size of Rhode Island, has only 16,000 people) nor scope. Switzerland, its western neighbor handles posts, customs and foreign interests...
...current monarch, Prince Franz Joseph II, has broken with history. He lives in Vaduz (pop. 3,300), Liechtenstein's capital. There he keeps-almost entirely to himself-one of the greatest private art collections in the world. Except for a 1948 show of 200 works in Lucerne, hardly any of the prince's 1,500 paintings, 75 tapestries, or the vast assortment of bronzes porcelain, baroque silver, Renaissance sculpture, Gothic and Renaissance furniture are ever seen by the public. Instead 95% of the collection stays in the prince's castles, mostly in the cellar and a tower...
...Dealers' Delight. Until the 16th century and the time of Prince Karl the princes of Liechtenstein were collectors not so much of art as of booty. Then Karl, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and an Imperial viceroy in Prague put a palaceful of artists and artisans at work turning out paintings and works of silver and gold. His son, Karl Eusebius was even more ardent. He was the delight of Vienna and Antwerp art dealers, for he would buy up whole collections at a time, and added such names to his catalogue as Memling...