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Against His Highness Prince Felix Youssoupov was brought at Paris, last week, a freak damage suit for $1,000,000 by Mme. Gregoriena Rasputin Solaviev, daughter of the late, detested "Black Monk," Gregory Efimovich Rasputin, evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsarina of all the Russias...
...everyone knows Tsarina Alexandra & Tsar Nicholas the Last came under the influence of the notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin because he could control-it is said by hypnotism-the haemophilia of the Tsarevitch Alexis. Not until the assassination of Rasputin and the execution of the Romanovs did History have done with that dark incident. Today Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain is said to repose a strong intuitive faith in a certain obscure Catalonian doctor whom she hopes may be able to cure the haemophilia of her first born, Don Alfonso, 21, Prince of the Asturias, and heir to Alfonso...
Such is one scene in the drama Rasputin, recently produced in Berlin by dynamic modernist-communist Director Erwin Piscator. At the piece there have been no audience-riots-for Berlin playgoers are supremely tolerant-but at Doorn, in the Netherlands, an old man has grown angry, hired lawyers, made threats. Last week the lawyers of Wilhelm of Dorn were successful. From one of the lower Berlin courts they obtained a permanent injunction restraining Director Piscator from placing on his slowly turning globe any actor, mask or dummy in the likeness of Wilhelm...
...have already instituted proceedings in what was literally an open session and a standing vote. And the five articles of complaint are but a fire-screen behind which rages the feeling against efficient Mrs. Hammonds, the Governor's secretary, who is alleged to combine the more interesting qualities of Rasputin and Mme. de Maintenon. Her influence is attributed to the fact that she is the head of her employer's chapter of the Order of Rosicrucians. Of this order, whose members have a proper disregard of temporal things extending in this instance to include the legislature, the Wandering...
Some callers have been vexed by Mrs. Hammonds' firmness in denying them audiences with Mr. Johnston, have called her a "Mrs. Colonel House." State Senator W. M. Gulager of Muskogee has even called her a "she-Rasputin." And recently State Representative H. Tom Kight of Claremore, spokesman for 69 colleagues, addressed Mr. Johnston publicly on the subject of Mrs. Hammonds, as follows...