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German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...
...Washington. Tennis was the most fashionable thing to watch in Washington last week. For tennis players there was a White House tea. For tennis play there were audiences which included Mrs. Hoover, Japanese Ambassador & Madame Katsuji Debuchi, Germany's elegant Ambassador Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Sweden's Wollmar Bostroem, China's Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Greece's Charalambos Simopoulos, U. S. Secretary of State & Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. William Mitchell, Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, Mrs. William M. Jardine, Mrs. Pierce Butler...
...under the stars" will be heard in the Hollywood Bowl under the batons of Directors Bernardino Molinari and Eugene Goossens. In Europe, London's Covent Garden opera season is now under way. It lasts until June 28. Two "Ring" cycles are being given, as well as Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, Girl of the Golden West, Manon Lescaut, Otello, Norma, Gioconda, Boris. Conductors are Bruno Walter, Robert Heger, Vincenzo Bellezza. Chaliapin heads the singers. The Paris music season, at its height from now through June, includes a series of performances at the Champs...
...tight little world of its own. The hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down...
...course George V, Edward of Wales and the Duke of York all visited Germany before the War, when the British royal house was that of Saxe Coburg und Gotha-rechristened 'Windsor" on July...