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...Nazi. President of the Reichstag, Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls. During the War Goring was an authentic national...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...contemporaries that many of them were engraved and published as prints by the famed Paris house of Goupil et Cie. Goupil et Cie were working on a lithograph of Bingham's most important canvas, The Verdict of the People, during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting and one of tire two known proofs of that lithograph were both in the Modern Museum's show last week. Skillfully composed, The Verdict of the People showed a great beaver-hatted crowd round the courthouse steps of a little Missouri...
...peasant-narrator is a philosopher with ideas about everything. He tells what he thinks of the an den regime, of Napoleon, of the bourgeois king. Louis Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been...