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...mother made Otto be good. He says he has never been in a nightclub. He certainly would never behave like his wild Archducal cousins, one of whom kept the terrified occupants of an entire hotel shut in their rooms one night as he roared up and down the corridors clad only in a sabre belt and sabre...
...Imperial tradition in the fulfillment of which Otto has disappointed his family is that a ruling Habsburg should marry royal blood. His backers begin to despair of his ever marrying. Once he was exposed to a young, pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the family's Belgian garden. Shyly and silently Otto walked. Finally he looked at the Countess with his big, soulful brown eyes, relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked...
Last week Otto, as the "Duc de Bar," flew from Lisbon to the U. S. on "a pleasure tour." He was reported to have made only one business appointment (J. P. Morgan) and to have accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation...
...sense these words (uttered last week by Dr. Otto Dietrich, head of Germany's press department) made to a citizen of the U. S., they might have been the product of another system of communication, like the lowing of cattle or the twittering of birds, not merely another language...
...difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work out of his dilemma on his own. Result: by deftly making youth's callow crisis also a crisis of adult intelligence, Director Louis King and Producer Stuart Walker (who produced the 1918 stage version of Seventeen) have made...