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Sirs: "The first man-child ever born a king," as TIME puts it, probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above...
...story itself is equally divided between fact and fable. That part of it which has historic basis deals with the young monarch's campaign against Darius and the Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...
From London it was falsely announced that King Amanullah had been forced to abdicate in favor of 14-year-old Crown Prince Rahmatullah. From Moscow, Soviet President A. T. Kalinin despatched a "gift" of Red combat planes to aid Afghanistan's hard-pressed monarch...
...Fifteenth Century history, one may read the famed Bull of Pope Alexander VI, whereby "The New World" of the Americas was pontifically divided between the most Catholic sovereigns of Spain and Portugal-the latter getting Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently cast off the Portuguese yoke...
TIME notes (with thanks to Baltimore Sun's Bouton) Field Marshal von Mackensen's denial of incidents originally reported in German newspapers. Difficult it is, however, to believe that Monarchist von Mackensen never talked monarchy with his onetime Monarch...