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...thus buried with traditional Catholic rites for Royalty (similar rites were observed for the King of Spain's mother [TIME, Feb. 18, 1929]) may or may not have been a sinner but he died desperately poor. The expensive pageant in his honor was financed by an astute woman: Zita, widow of ill-starred Emperor Karl, mother of famed "Little Otto" who pretends to both the Imperial Austrian and the Royal Hungarian thrones (TIME...
...does choose, a way was at least indicated last week. Archduke Rainer Carl, an unimportant, very distant cousin, died in penury in Vienna a few days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...
...Russian carriage drawn by three horses, the centre horse wearing a halter around its neck. The play exhibits all the typical appurtenances of Russian drama, including characters named Bogulieff and Bolotoff, without any of the vitalizing insight of a Chekhov or a Tolstoy. Natascha is quietly played by Zita Johann, whose intelligent presence gave interest to last season's Machinal...
...true that he favored the return of the Habsburgs to reign in Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom of united Austria and Bavaria? Did he want to indemnify the Habsburgs for property confiscated by the Austrian Republic? In Luxemburg had he visited ex-Empress Zita of Austria, as reported, and discussed with her these matters? Deftly Mgr. Seipel avoided the more contentious questions...
...Charlotte Aldegonde Elise Marie Wilhelmine, Grand Duchess of Luxemburg, sister-in-law of melancholy Zita...