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...bridesmaid: Beauteous Grand Duchess Kyra Kyrilovna, daughter of His Majesty the Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, the Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Kyril Alexandrovich, Emperor of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan,-if Josef Stalin would only...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport...
...First World War (Fox) starts in 1895 with Germany's old Prince von Bismarck ("The Iron Chancellor") saluting for a cameraman. In 1904, the Prince of Wales is playing soldiers with his sister Mary and brother Albert, the Kaiser is visiting an orphanage, the Tsar is praying for his sick son, Alexis. Chapter II deals with the Balkan Wars in 1912. Chapter III shows the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the declarations of war. The eight chapters that follow are packed with sequences so exciting in themselves and so lightly related to each other that it is almost impossible...
...loath was onetime President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of Bulgaria. Far too poor to have a private train of his own, Boris III is apt to be all over the public trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although...
...courtroom but also in the American Hebrew by various writers including Princess Catherine Radziwill. Reason for compiling anything at all lay in the fact that in the years preceding the Russian revolution of 1905. the Russian Conservatives were badly in need of a red herring to drag before credulous Tsar Nicholas. With Liberals demanding reforms, the Conservatives could forestall them by picturing Russia's restlessness as result of a great Jewish conspiracy...