Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys for the two non-existent children whom he believes are his by Sari Fedak? Such things happen in Hungary, where certain ancient family strains have achieved notable degeneration. Perhaps it was by mere chance that Count Emerich Dagenfeldt went mad soon after Sari Fedak became mistress and then (after some six years) wife to Ferenc Molnar. Another question: The Court: "Did you really call the plaintiff 'that low down little Budapest cat'?" Sari Fedak: "I hardly know her well enough to call her that, but whatever I said...
...House of Shadows. This last drop in the season's bucket of mystery plays makes no great splash. It explains a haunted house tenanted by a mad miser. For years he had booed off all visitors until the hero and. heroine dared his confines. Especially unfortunate is the fatty dialogue that weighs the play down with uneventful explanation...
...Herr Strauss, I have been your publisher for 30 years, but after the telegram you sent me yesterday our relations are over, finished! Your terms are mad. [Click...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...
Died. Baron Auguste Goffinet, faithful friend and guardian of the late mad Empress Charlotte (TIME, Jan. 31) ; onetime secretary of Belgian King Leopold II; in Brussels. He said: "Leopold was right when he told me years ago, 'Empress Charlotte is to bury us all except yourself...