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...former Kaiser, King and All Highest, came tidings last week that his fourth son, August Wilhelm, had been kicked and beaten by police at Königsberg ("King's Mountain") while participating in a Fascist demonstration. Recently August Wilhelm swore a public oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler. It has been denied by all concerned that Wilhelm II is financing the German Fascists...
...Centrist Leader Dr. Wilhelm Marx has been Chancellor four times for a total of three years...
Dour, red-haired Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (real name Plumpe-murnau) was born in 1889, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin University. He got Max Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...
Four of the five greatest European conductors have had U. S. fiascoes. Aged Karl Muck was repudiated by the Boston Symphony on a hazy charge of pro-Germanism. Wilhelm Furtwangler and Willem Mengelberg were popular for a time in Manhattan, then severely criticized and not invited to return. Bruno Walter was twice guest leader of the defunct New York Symphony, but in his brief regime he could not raise it from the lethargy into which it had sunk after years under Walter Damrosch. The fifth great maestro, who has not failed, is Arturo Toscanini. Under his guidance the New York...
...pair of duelling pistols given by Napoleon I to General Kl�ber, and many another trinket formerly preserved at Klein-Glienicke Castle, Potsdam, Germany by Prince Friedrich Leopold Hohenzollern, cousin of the former Kaiser, went on the auction block. While plebeian agents refrained from bidding, Representatives of Kaiser Wilhelm bought Frederick the Great's gold watch. Prices: watch, $1,190; pistols...