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...peculiar reason the Buckingham banquet was especially merry. Reason: the British Royal House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth...
Born. To Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic, a grandson, the first to bear the venerable name of Hindenburg...
...nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
...songs that Schubert is measured today, by his Erlkonig that he wrote when he was eighteen, by Who is Sylvia?, Litaney, Tod und das Madchen and the Standchen, by the songs that crept in to become the life of his last string quartets, his quintet, the C Major and the great Unfinished Symphony. In Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist...
...subject of the lecture will be "Architektur und DeKoration der Barock Kirchen in Deutschland im 17 und 18 Jahr hundert," and will be delivered in German...