Kaiser bans Hohenzollern plays amid theater decline
1913 article notes Kaiser Wilhelm II forbids Hohenzollern pieces in royal theaters, blaming state control and costly subsidies for decline. It contrasts German sensationalism with Russia’s Imperial theatres, detailing management flaws, foreign works, and salaries for artists like Savina and Pavlova, and cites scandals such as misbooked “candles in box” costs.
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Curtin Brown
Bertin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Prussia
Sa ‘Roya
House of Brandenburg
America
England
Rainer
Royal Theater Staff
Germany
Walter Turszinsky
Wilhelm
Wilhelm II
Hochberg
Max Grube
Ludwig Barnay
Huessen-Haesler
Count Huelsen-Haertler
Wieseaden
Royal Theaters
Kleist
Prince Friedrich von Homburg
Hohenzollerns
Friedrich the Great
Ernst Wichern
Berlin Opera
Berlin Royal Theater
Hanover
Wiesbaden
Landtag
Munich
Dresden
Royal Theater
Royal Opera
Geraldine Farrar
Putnam Griswold
Wagner
Russia
Maxim Gorky
Andreyeff
Kuprin
Yushkevitch
St. Petersburg
Marya
Alexander
Michel
Comedie Francaise
Gabrielle Hobinne
Cecile Soret
Marie Louise Derval
Moscow
Europe
M. Teliakowsky
Duma
Alexander III
Savina
Tamara
Schouvaloff
Tcherkasskaya
Scha- Hapine
Paviove
Lygisia’ Kyasht
London
Kyasht
Lydia
Meiningen Theater as Model for State Stages
A historical survey praises the Meiningen court theater under Duke George II for its disciplined, comprehensive stock company and lavish production design. It argues state theaters thrive under competent, centralized guidance, contrasting with later deficiencies in Austrian and Russian houses and noting Meiningen’s influence across Europe. Rudolf von Elpheerg signs off.
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Werren Hastings
India
Nicholas
Petersburg
Krasnoe
Pavlova
Verigin
Nicholau
Vienna
Kaiser Franz Josef
Gritlparzer
Josef II
Holy Roman Empire
Franz Josef
Europe
Meiningen Court
Meiningen
George II
Elen Franz
Baroness von Heldburg
Austria
Russia
England
Sweden
Herr Kroenegk
Rudolph von Elpheerg
Prominent Real Estate Owner Praises Quaker Extract
A well known city real estate owner Henry Karwisch of 175 Kirkwood Avenue suffered rheumatism for years. He endured severe pains and could not leave home, despite doctors and many medicines. A local health advert promotes Courtley and Man Quaker Extract at five dollars for six treatments and two fifty for a shorter course.
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Henry Karwisch
Kirkwood Avenue
Beyerlein ridicules army, sparks political stir in Germany
Berlin reports Franz Beyerlein, famed for Jena or Sedan, at Leipzig with The Miracle of St Terence and a new novel on the army. His anti military writings stir court and royal resistance while election poetry, libel suits, and state censorship shadow German cultural life.
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Berlin
Franz Adam Beyerlein
St. Terence
Leipzig
Beyerlein
Jena
Sedan
Germany
Beyeriein
Dresden
Wahlditcher
Mecklenburg
Herr Hahnemann
Prussia
Luxembourg succession turmoil looms after grand duke dies
The piece recalls Luxembourg's dynastic drama as the grand duke nears death with six underage daughters and a potential male claimant. It traces Orange Nassau ties, past annexation in 1867, regency, and royal marriages influencing future throne disputes amid a fragile line of succession.
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Berlin
Ofuxembourg
Orange-Nassau
Wilhelmina
Helland
Grand Duke of
Luxenbourg
Duke of
Nassau
Prussia
Austria
Lumemburg
Hanover
Francis Joseph
Guenzburg
Bavaria
Germany
Hohenzollerns
Baden
Hilda
Maninau
Netherlands
House of Orange-Nassau
Luxembourg
William
Portugal
Holland
Europe
Grand * Aukeé
Marrigg
Prine
Nicholas’ of
Nerenburg
Porby
Michal
Carenberg
Morenberg
Hoilland
Gethi Felening
Book seizures under bureaucratic rule in 1911 rise
In 1911 authorities seized 467 books in eleven months with most bans nonpolitical. The senate protested headpiece symbolism uniting Christian and Mohammedan emblems. Only 35 seizures cited politics. publishers faced unreturned volumes and vague bureaucratic offenses. Bernar d Aston.
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Senate
Bernard- Aston
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