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...less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
Young April (Joseph Schildkraut, Bessie Love). At the Hippodrome, onetime magic home of elephants, clowns, high-divers; recent realm of vaudeville; now frankly succumbed to the cinema as well, is No. 4,000 in the endless series of mythical kingdom romances. This one recounts the adventures of the Crown Prince of Belgravia, who gives up his heritage so that he may marry a U. S. citizeness, only to learn that she is in reality the grand duchess he was to have been forced to wed. The whole affair is safely routine with one outstanding exception. For Rudolph Schildkraut, father...
...varnished but angular third class bench, few would have supposed her the sole heir to one of Europe's largest and most thriftily hoarded fortunes. Throughout the week, as she did camp girl duty (cooked, scrubbed, mended) few chance visitors guessed that this bright-eyed buxom girl was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, heir to the throne...
...this day courtiers at the Hague recall the Queen Mother's words of blistering scorn when Crown Princess Juliana, precocious at 15, became innocently infatuated with a 30 year old Jewish widower, Gabriel Alara, a sweet-voiced, black-eyed cantor in an Amsterdam synagog (TIME, Dec. 8, 1923.) But such is the winsomeness of Princess Juliana that, in her presence, all is soon forgiven...
...Including onetime Crown Prince Frederick William, who had staked the able Teuton swimmer...