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When Adolf Hitler marched into Austria year ago "His Most Apostolic Majesty" Otto von Habsburg, 26-year-old pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, entered objections. Blustering Field Marshal Hermann Goring answered the objections by calling the Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Bürckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer...
Master of these hunts, which last week wound up a riotous year of keeping Paris in daily stitches, has been self-styled Le Roi des Loufoques (King of the Nuts), Pierre Dae, a baldish, crinkly-eyed comic...
...long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third in 1928 for Tammany!, one of the most savagely comic cartoons ever printed...
...vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic life, psychological conflict...
...then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot. Margaret Lockwood and Dame Whitty are particularly good; and a certain amount of comic relief is supplied by two English cricket fans who are futilely striving to reach England for the test match and meanwhile play a game of their own with pieces of sugar...