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...jumping off a bridge at Berlin in 1920 an obscure young woman started ripples of cause and effect which expanded in grandeur until, last week, she stepped off the Bejengaria, at Manhattan, as Her Imperial Highness, Anastasia, fourth and youngest daughter of the last Tsar of all the Russias...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling paragrapher, applauded the State Department as follows: "Too bad Wall Street's boy financiers did not have somebody like Secretary Kellogg to keep them from buying the Tsar's bonds, and even more preposterous bonds issued by Kerensky. Largely on account of those bonds this country is not permitted to do business with Russia...
...Princess Anna Ilynski, and the Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas; a son, in London. From his father the child inherits the unlikely chance of someday becoming Tsar of Russia; from his mother, who was Miss Audrey Emery of Manhattan, the millions of his late grandfather, Leather King John Emery...
...Patriot. A massive evening in the theatre awaits the curiosity seeker who hurries here for his entertainment. He will see eight scenes of Russian history roll by; uniformed in scarlet, green and white, majestic with the murder of a Tsar...
...Catherine, Russia's greatest queen, was crazy cruel with power. Destroying the love of his people at home and the power of Russia abroad, he dug his own grave. Led by Count Pahlen, governor of St. Petersburg, his surrounding servants killed him and reared his son Alexander Tsar in his stead. Pahlen's struggle with his conscience as he moulds the murder of a trusting friend for the salvation of Russia adds the major note of personal conflict...