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...Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Söderman-land, second son of King Gustaf, wrote his first play-Kinangonzi. The Prince, it was pointed out, was merely upholding the traditional talents of the House of Ponte Corvo; for King Oscar II was an internationally known painter, Prince Eugen, brother of King Gustaf, a well-known author-explorer...
From 1431 until 1912 Albania, a small country on the Adriatic Sea, was under Turkish rule. Two years later the Crown of Albania was offered to and accepted by the German Prince Wilhelm of Wied, but as soon as the War broke out (and before a Constitution had been framed) he fled back to Germany. Albania fell into a state of anarchy and was invaded by Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Austria. Her independence was again declared in 1917 and since then the Government has been in the hands of a Constituent Assembly and a Council of Regents, composed of representatives...
Report and rumors were current of attempts to influence the ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, now living upon his estates at Oels, in Silesia...
...following message was addressed to the world last week by Wilhelm Marx, German Chancellor...
...POET ASSASSINATED-Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated from the French by Matthew Josephson)- Broom ($5.00). Wilhelm de Kostrovitsky (Guillaume Apollinaire), was a Frenchman famous for his eccentricities. He was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter, leading about in his trail a gang of writers and freaks, artists and idiots. Idol of the professional modernists in literature, he was the friend of such distinguished artists as Matisse and Picasso. The Poet Assassinated is a work containing practically all of its author's unlimited peculiarities. It is remotely autobiographical, the history of a poet, whose birth is described with a somewhat appalling...