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...hunting lodge at Mayerling not far from Vienna the body of the Archduke Rudolf, only son & heir of the Emperor Franz Josef was found shot through the temple, lying by the side of his dead mistress, the beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera...
...years the true story of their deaths has been one of the greatest European mysteries, a delight to novelists and playwrights. There were dozens of versions: Rudolf committed suicide. The pair were killed by a jealous husband. It was a political murder inspired by the Czechs, the Poles or one of the other minorities fighting for state's rights. Members of the Vetsera family murdered...
...Rudolf to avenge their honor. (One version of this story has Archduke Rudolf not shot, but smashed over the head with a champagne bottle. Legend describes the arrival of a surgeon who extracted three-inch slivers of green glass from his skull...
Last week newsgatherers broke down the reticence of one of the few living people who really know what happened to Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg-a gentle 76-year-old lady, Frau Katharina Schratt...
...lock up the peacocks on opera nights. Here last week Ambroise Thomas' Mignon and Friedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride opened Cincinnati's season: eight weeks of standard grand opera, two of light opera (this year, Vincent Youman's & Herbert Stothart's Wild flower and Rudolf Friml's Firefly). Conductor is Isaac Van Grove. Of the able if not world-celebrated singers the most popular are Sopranos Myrna Sharlow and Josephine Lucchese. Contralto Marta Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment...