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Lusty Bavarians cheered at Nuremberg last week one whom they hail as "Our King"-the onetime Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. He, clad in a field-gray uniform, spike-helmeted, reviewed with Prince Oscar of Prussia (rep resenting Wilhelm of Doom) and the great Feldmarschall von Mackensen (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924) a mammoth parade of several thousand former Imperial officers and Reichswehr troops...
...four consecutive days last week, Chancellor (Prime Minister) Wilhelm Marx addressed the 65th annual German Catholic Congress at Breslau. On the first day, 130 Catholic nobles attended, on the second day, 87, on the third, 45, on the fourth, 12. The onetime King of Saxony attended on only the first three days. At Berlin, Liberal Republican editors were vexed at what they called "the anti-Republican behavior of the German Catholic nobles toward the Chancellor of the Republic...
...Hochs!" were shouted when old Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg entered the onetime "Kaiser Box" in the German Reichstag and sat down with republican democracy in civilian attire. Attentive witnesses reported that the onetime Feldmarschal fidgeted inattentively as Chancellor Wilhelm Marx loquaciously conveyed to him "the good wishes of the Republic...
Cosima Wagner, widow of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony...
Born. To Princess Mafalda, 23, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and wife of Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm; a son, at Racconigi, Italy...