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Today Carl Gustaf Ekman is Grand Master of the Swedish Good Templars (Prohibitionists), foes of the famed "Bratt System" by which Swedes are allowed to buy driblets of liquor under an elaborately regulated system of permits at Government stores (TIME, Aug. 27, 1928). Last week tall King Gustaf V, still in deepest mourning for his late Queen, called to the Prime Ministry his Great Templar...
Stranger still is the fact that the Great Templar, who was called by King Gustaf last week, leads only 28 deputies-or a bare 12% of the house. He has, however, a great & good friend: Per Albin Hansson, leader of the 90 Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish...
...turned almost every sort of establishment into prisons, and they were all crowded to the doors. The most famous of the prisons was the Conciergerie, the antechamber of death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that the king was driven to his death in January...
...special "woman's number." Beaumont and Fletcher's dramatic critique discusses the fine points of "Hamlet" as rendered by the great actors of historic and contemporary fame. The musical article treats of H. W. Parker's compositions. A work of dignity is a dramatic poem, "The Templar." A new school of portraiture on wood, and the "Masterpieces of French Sculpture," are two lavishly illustrated art articles...
...Pray Building was the centre of attraction for a tremendous crowd during the day of the great parade of the Knights Templar in Boston last month...