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...last November detectives and secret service agents have haunted the official mansion of the Governor of the District of Potsdam striving to catch the famous "masked bandit" who every few nights snitched silver spoons, small statuettes, salable Bibelots. Last week the mystery was solved. In huge embarrassment Provincial Governor Wilhelm Momms resigned. The masked bandit was Frau Momms, the Governor's wife who had adopted this sly method of paying bills she did not show her husband...
...vote of 265 to 150, the Reichstag last week completely revised the Defense of the Republic Act, struck out the clause forbidding Wilhelm II to enter Germany. Sulky and prudent, the whilom War lord made no move to return to Berlin...
TCHAIKOVSKY'S CONCERTO IN D by Polish Violinist Bronislaw Huberman and the Berlin State Orchestra under Wilhelm Steinberg (Columbia, $8)-Tchaikovsky wrote this Concerto shortly after his miserable marriage, at a time of great depression; but its mood is surprisingly light and Violinist Huberman, of European fame, plays with exceeding grace over a subdued orchestra...
...Honor. Without exception they have gotten to be Francophile. They have warmed up from cold or luke warm to hot in shouting that we oughtn't to collect from France what they certainly owe us! You know the men I mean-such as Myron Timothy Herrick. If Kaiser Wilhelm had given him the Iron Cross and if he had become as pro-German as he became pro-French, only Heaven knows what might have happened...
...late Dr. Wilhelm Bode, former Director of the Royal Gallery, in Berlin, described the painting in the following terms: "The subject of the picture is about sixteen. He is standing turned to the left and looking at the spectator, wearing a greenish black cloak, a cap of the same colour with a yellow band, and a limp pleated collar. His hair falls in curls over his shoulders, the full light coming almost from the front with a brown background, fairly light in tone...