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Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...
...Frau von Tchaikovski" as their former mistress on the basis of certain birthmarks. Dr. Rudness, sometime physician to Nicholas II, now a refugee at Berlin, admitted to correspondents that he had examined the mysterious "Frau," but refused to affirm or deny that she is the Grand Duchess...
...father the cobbler, who, like Hans Christian, was sick a good deal, died one day, and after that Frau Andersen had no time to think about Hans. He stopped going to school; instead, he built himself a toy theatre and sat about all day in the cobbler's shop, making clothes for marionettes or reading plays. Such conduct irritated the Dominie of Odense. He had no liking for Hans; what was more, the boy did not know his catechism. So he took Hans away and had him confirmed by a Bishop. After the ceremony he took him into...
...sweeps the speed of the growing city . . . George Gewurtz, a lusty young contractor. Frau Zwenge smells the soundness of his bricks and mortar?his automobile, real estate, immediacy. Karl Bleicher is behind the rushing times and Greta is pushed, swept off into George's arms...
...filled, not teased, into a powerful fresco on the walls of Manhattan and of life. Karl sees Greta again in her daughter. The girl has found her lover, just such a penniless composer as Karl once was. But the older man is prestige, comfort, immediacy and she accepts him. Frau Zwenge applauds, on that practical side as before. The old grandfather is glad, having loved Karl. George Gewurtz is for it, seeking to force an issue he has long suspected: the truth about Karoline's paternity...