Word: archduchess
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...Married. Archduchess Agnes Christine of Habsburg, 20, great-granddaughter of Austria's late Emperor Franz Josef; and Prince Karl Alfred, 38, brother of Franz Josef II, reigning prince of Liechtenstein; in Castle Persenbeug, Austria...
Bravo! (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone...
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels...
...Supremely unimportant" probabilities: born Harry F. Gerguson in 1890 in 1) Vilna, Russia, or 2) Hillsboro, Ill., or 3) Manhattan's lower East Side. † Other New World Habsburgs: Archduke Otto and youngest brother, Archduke Rodolphe in Washington; Mother Empress Zita and Archduchess Elizabeth Charlotte in Quebec; Archduchesses Adelaide and Charlotte in New York City...
...life in middle-class Vienna; toured Germany as a violinist until she ruined her wrist in a train wreck; helped get out a Socialist news paper in South Germany until the outbreak of World War I; took lovers, of whom the best one fell in Belgium; befriended a lonely archduchess and nursed and under-ate throughout the war; had two children, one by a man who was not her husband; beheld and took part in the miseries of German post-war democracy; was sent to Soviet Russia as a skillful toymaker and there married a U.S. industrialist; got eyefuls...