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Governor von Kahr did join Hitler & Ludendorff ("at the point of a pistol," he afterwards testified). Enough other beer-soused Bavarians joined to make it necessary for a Reichswehr regiment to shoot several people. When Ludendorff & Hitler were tried for high treason the General was acquitted, the upstart given a light prison sentence from which he was released in a few months ("as insane," say enemies...
...music for last week's operetta and stood in the pit to conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor, soldier in a Viennese regiment, sole support in dark post-War days of many a Viennese orphan. For Sissy, his second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics have not fussed at their...
When I have read it, my copy goes into the Mess anteroom where it is read and enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...
...Regiment (Indian Army...
...Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandière Marion Davies. In the background a staff officer is apparently trying to keep a charging regiment of cuirassiers (copied from Meissonier's Friedland) from trampling the entire assemblage underfoot. Three years ago the picture was unveiled in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles by the mother of Theatre Owner Sid Grauman with the remark, "It is the work of genius...