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There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting here and there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance...
None the less Publisher Mitre attributed the suppression of the mutiny very largely to the King's dash by motor in six hours from San Sebastian to Madrid where he lent the support of royal prestige to the drastic acts of Primo de Rivera in suppressing the mutiny...
...after midnight when King Alfonso, enjoying a quiet game of bridge in the Miramar Palace at San Sebastian, was called to the telephone by an urgent summons from Premier de Rivera, who explained that twelve regiments of artillery were in mutiny and that the King's presence in Madrid was imperative...
Alfonso, Prince of the Austurias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain: "The motor car in which I was riding with my tutor near San Sebastian last week collided with a motor truck and I escaped injury as by a miracle. My health has been reported 'indifferent' for so long that I am suspected of suffering from some permanent disorder and there is talk of offering the succession to someone else. If I am passed over it is expected that a similar fate will overtake my father's second son, Prince Jaime, for he is almost...
King Alfonso returned hastily to Madrid from the summer capital at San Sebastian to assist the Premier in dealing with this situation...