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...first time in years were allowed to talk to the Press. Baron von Wiesner. who presided, was said to have declared: "The law passed by the former Socialist Government, banishing the Habsburgs from Austria, will be rescinded by the Cabinet within a month. The former Empress and Emperor Otto will return as soon as practicable...
...Prince von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr. was last week offered the post of Minister without portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet. Two weeks before he had said: "Reports that I am aiming at the crown are entirely untrue. I will not be a competitor of the Habsburgs. Otto is the only possible Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure...
...house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky was a hated Russian. His status as a dancer was forgotten. He had no space to practice, spent his time working on a system for annotating the dance. The authorities heard about his queer hieroglyphics, suspected him of spying. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn was responsible for the Nijinskys' release. He wanted the Diaghilev Ballet to come to New York and he wanted Nijinsky. But Diaghilev never forgot his grudge and Nijinsky's wife blames him for the long chain of misfortunes which so unnerved the dancer that he was completely taken...
...Pons, Ponselle and Lawrence Tibbett struggled to get radio auditions but no one in the broadcasting studios had heard of them. The 1934 finale was a jazzed version of Aida with a Ford used instead of horses and all the members of the company kowtowing to Cartoonist Otto Soglow who sat on the throne dressed like his own "Little King." But as the audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save...
...Lieut. Otto Wienecke, a seasoned Army pilot who had flown less than 24 hr. in the last 18 months, was ramming a planeload of mail from, Newark, N. J. through a snowstorm, toward Cleveland. About 20 mi. short of his goal, he groped for a landing. His plane crashed on John Hess's farm near Burton, Ohio. Farmer Hess ran to the wreck, shook the pilot's shoulder. Lieut. Wienecke did not budge. His neck was broken...