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...increasingly known as the prime spot for socialite artists to exhibit their wares, had a teaparty last week to open their swankiest show of the season. Visitors with slightly buttery fingers wandered through three rooms to see drawings, water colors, etchings and oil paintings by Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, his cousin the Countess Regina Felide Héléne Louise Amadée zu Stolberg-Stolberg, and a Mr. Purcell-Jones...
Though they have yet to make their mark in the world of art, the Princes of Reuss (Germany) are the delight of genealogists. More spectacular is the fact that ever since the 14th Century all male members of the House of Reuss have been named Henry and numbered serially. There are two systems of numerology. The elder branch of the House of Reuss names its Henrys from 1 to 100, then starts in with 1 again. This branch is now extinct in the male line. The first and second limbs of the junior branch name their Henrys according...
...Germany's Reuss-Gera Prison, one Schaarschmidt, deprived of tools, chewed his way out through solid oak bars. When captured his teeth were found mere stumps, his jaws ape-size...
Engaged. Allene Tew Burchard of Manhattan, widow of onetime vice chair man Anson Wood Burchard of General Electric Co.; to Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, widower of Princess Victoria Margarette of Hohenzollern. Until 1918, the House of Reuss ruled over two principalities on the Polish frontier of Germany. For many centuries all Reuss princes have been named Henry. At the end of every 100 years, the numbering begins at I again...
Died. Prince George Wilhelm zu Schoenaich-Carolath, 18, stepson of the onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II and second son of Princess Hermine of Reuss, onetime wife of Prince Johann George von Schoenaich-Carolath; at Grunberg, Silesia; after a motorcycle accident. He underwent an unsuccessful operation upon his skull...