12
The Private Life of the Kaiser
FROM THE PAPERS AND DIARIES OF
THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN
The Kalaer aid Kalaerla'a Late Majer Dome, Chief ef the Reyal
Hetueheld at Berlin and Potsdam.
Baroness ton Larlaeh-Reddera Is the TRUE name of the Berlin
Conrt Lady who care the story of the Kaiser to Henry William
Fisher, L'rsula, Cowntess von Eppinchoven being; a ion de smerre,
heretofore used to shield her.
(Continued From Saturday)
Especially to Frederick William
the First's cleverness as a painter,
constant reference is made, although
any one acquainted with the his
tory of the Prussian Court might be
aware of the untenableness of that
claim. The father of the great
Frederick wrote his royal signature
on a good many canvases, it is
true, but few of the pictures at
tributed to his brush were really his.
As a matter of fact, instead of being
the Apelles of the Brandenburg
dynasty, its first noted painter, he
started the fashion of counterfeiting,
of which his son became past-mas
ter. His scheme was to employ poor
artists by the year, and to let them
paint daubs of all sizes and sub
jects. These he adorned with his
name, adding a little coloring here
and there into the bargain, and sold
at high prices to flatterers and ene
mies, as the case might be, for in
those days the modes of punishment
at the disposal of a Majesty were
manifold and curious.
A cunning knave this second King
of Prussia, and his august example
was not entirely lost upon his suc
cessors. But there is still another
point to be noticed. William's daily
program precludes in itself the un
dertaking of serious work on the
Kaiser's part. Having forever One
foot in the stirrup and planning new
diversions before another is fairly
under way, liow should this alleged
.iaek-of-all-trades find time for the
literary, musical, and artistic pur
suits credited to him?
There are geniuses who accom
plish a prodigious amount of work
by turning night into day; but,
with all my experience in the royal
household, I am at a loss to account
for the newspaper statements that
used to set forth that now and again
the Kaiser had spent half, or three
quarters of the night, studying state
papers or working out great projects
in the interest of public concern.
In the first place, his constitu
tional aversion to sitting still for a
considerable time was against night
work, even supposing that the day's
or evening's amusements had not
tired out William so completely as
to make it impossible for him to
gtve the necessary attention to im
portant business.
Still, to defend myself against ac
cusations of inaccuracy I had better
quote certain notes from my diary.
Of three hundred and sixty-five
days, the Kaiser was away from
his official residence one hundred
and ninety-nine, devoting himself
to the army 011 twenty-seven days,
and employing sixteen days in duties
of representation. One hundred and
over, I doubt that he thinks it neces-
sary to do so. A person who, rely
ing merely upon his musical ear, and
without having had instruction in
singing, or being able to play an
instrument, gets up in a stately
gathering to sing an aaaa abound
ing in difficult passages, is certainly
the quintessence of self-reliance.
That is exactly what William did
at Castle Sehlitz, with Count Goertz
as accompanist, the boldness of the
exploit before an audience distin
guished for artistic accomplishments
being none the less pronounced on
account of the fact that the air was
alleged to lie liis own composition.
Of the performance, Countess
Goertz spoke to the Empress in
most enthusiastic terms; but. to
quote William, "Her Ladyship is a
woman so beautiful that to expect
sense from her would be hoggish."
That on the same occasion His
Majesty acquitted himself quite well
of conducting the band, a military
one, which had been thoroughly
drilled in performing the "Song to
Acgi. - ," is not astonishing. With
his ear for music and a little atten
tion to technique, it would have
been difficult, indeed, to lead so
finished an organization into blun
ders, when every man knew that his
slightest mistake would be followed
by professional disgrace.
Now to the one hundred and sixty
six days when he was "officially"
at home. Seventy-seven of them
were pleasantly passed in shooting,
boating, yachting, or other out-door
exercise in the neighborhood of
Potsdam or Berlin, while of the re
maining eighty-nine days, each
twenty-four hours were diversified
by banquets, corsos, concerts, thea
trical performances; by receptions,
reviews, or spcechmakings. The
number of miles covered by the
Kaiser during the period mentioned,
amounted to three-quarters of the
earth's circumference.
A dozen members of our Court so
ciety were discussing the above at a
musicale given by the widow of the
Red Prince in her palace on Leip
ziger Platz, when Princess Aribert
of Anhalt, a sprightly young Eng
lish-woman, remarked: "Granted
the Kaiser cannot ply the fourteen
trades and arts imputed by some his
torians to Peter the Great, no one
will gaitnsay that he is a brilliant
speaker and an adept in military
science."
"Of his rhetorical qualities," re
plied our hostess, "foreigners, even
those understanding German as well
as you, my dear, can hardly form a
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proper estimate. For myself. I
think the Kaiser's speeches neither
distinguished for elegance of dic
tion or for originality. The most
offensive sameness pervades them,
and not infrequently they abound in
missstatements."
I could have furnished Her Royal
Highness at least one very good rea
son for the faults pointed out; these
speeches are of the Kaiser's own
making.
Only very rarely would he take the
trouble to jot down minutes. More-
Some months after the exploit in
Schlitz, His Majesty and a great
number of friends were hunting near
Castle Leizlingen, the band of the
Saltzwedel Lancers furnishing the
table-music. At that time, the offi
cial papers reported, "the Kaiser
again proved his eminent musical
talent by conducting the grand
march from 'Aida.' " One of the
party. General von Haenisch, how
ever, tells me that this is not true.
The Kaiser took up the baton to
lead the "Hohenfriedberger" and
Count Moltke's "Rider's March,"
compositions of quite a different
caliber to Verdi's great work, and
which, besides, the band could have
played in the dark and with eyes
shut.
To return to the observations of
Princess Frederick Charles; There
is, among the numberless speeches
and sayings reported of the Kaiser,
not one pithy remark that has
become a by-word in every-day
speech or in letters. In all this
dreary wilderness of imperial ver
bosity, we lind 110 mot tliat out
lived the hour of its birth, and the
Kaiser's observations, as a general
thing, nre too commonplace nnd in
significant even to permit dressing
up.
Other important persons are
made to say clever things, often
without their knowledge or consent,
but William's friends and admirers
scour his speeches vainly for a peg
upon which to hang some witticism,
or some Hash of genius that might
eventually be credited to the royal
tattle?.
The Emperor, who claims to be a
student of the older French litera
ture, probably got far enough in
Rivarol to learn that "it is an
immense advantage to have never
said anything." The sentence fol
lowing, namely, "but one should
not abuse it," lie must have over
looked, for he certainly did abuse
the privilege. And in a twofold
manner, too; he kept on saying
nothing, and habitually misquoted
history.
I have not kept a minute account
of the missives, but, if memory
serves me right, I should say that
fully one-third of the mysterious
anonymous letters that caused the
great Court scandal of which I
will speak presently, contained caifs
tic references to the Kaiser's as
sassination of historical facts.
So was, during a Christmas sea
son, Her Majesty's holiday humor
seriously disturbed by an epistle
hauling the Kaiser over the coals
for a speech he had made in Kiel,
at the swearing-in of recruits, and
which refered to the battle of Ver
cella (101 B. C.) as having been
fought "between Germans and Rom
ans" (mistake No. 1), and wherein
"the Romans were vanquished"
(mistake No. 2) "by the enemy's
superior valor" (mistake No. 3).
After pointing out a half dozen
other errors, the writer of the anony
mous note suggested that Augusta
Victoria buy her husband a small
reference-library; at the same time
the correspondent thanked "William
the-Sudden" for having garbled his
tory in order to pay homage to
the arms of ancient France, "for."
said this writer, "the barbaric tribe
which opposed the Romans at Ver
cella were not Germans, but Cimbri,
or Gauls; that is, they belonged to
the same family as the French of
to-day."
Similar anonymous notes emptied
the vials of sarcasm over the com
poser of the "Song to Aegir," which
latter, it was pointed out, was not a
god of the sea, but a miserable land
lubber, who never had so much as
a sniff of the ocean.
The Empress used to turn over
these epistles to her husband, with
an aching heart; but if she, like
most of her friends, hoped that
these missives would make William
more careful, her expectations were
not realized, for the Kaiser went
bravely on blundering and exposing
himself to ridicule.
Much as one might be inclined to
look upon this sort of coxcombry as
a harmless affectation liable to wear
off in the course of time, its real
purport is too glaring to be over
looked; his parading with plumes
borrowed and stolen, his many bids
for popular applause through news
paper adulation smacking of the
methods of the press agent, Wil
liam's public lecturing and preach
ing his coquetting with the stage
and letters, —all was but part of a
system carefully pieced together to
uphold the pretence of imperial
omnipotence and omni-knowlcdge.
This whole life of pretense and
fraud will IK- exposed in the continu
ation of this series of revelations of
the true character of the Kulser.
(To Be Continued)
Florence Nash and Orrin Jqhnson in "Remnant" < j
at the Orpheum Wednesday • j
There is nothing of the "road" about the brilliant attraction which
Charles Emerson Cook will present at the Orpheum Theater, when for
the first time here that brilliant and clever little comedienne Florence Nash
will be seen in the sparkling new French comedy, "Remnant." Coming
direct from four months of success at the Morosco Theater in New York
this play also carries the unusual endorsement of a full year at the Gaiete
Theater in Faris and seven months at the Royalty in London. It was
written by the well known Parisian author Dario Niceodemi and trans
lated for the English stage by Michael Morton.
The popularity of Miss Nash would be alone sufficient to attract a record
audience to the Orpheum theater Wednesday matinee and night, but Mr.
Cook has not been content with assembling a merely average cast. That
splendid actor Orrin Johnson well known through many successes, is fea
tured with the star and others will include Malcolm Fassett, Etienne,
Girardot, Ben R. Graham, Clare Weldon and Dorothy Chest on.
Scene From "Queen of the Sea"
Annette Kellerman, shapely "Queen of the Sea," is the aquatic star at
the Victoria Theater for four days, beginning to-day. Those who remem
ber her famous picture, "A Daughter of the Gods," are promised in this
latest William Fox submarine fairy story even more sensational swimming
and high-diving stunts, combined with real dramatic situations. The hrt
of condensation has been applied to this feature picture so that thrill
follows thrill in constant crescendo, until Miss Kellerman attains a hair
raising climax with her dive of 85 feet from a high wire into the breakers
below.
This comes as a logical part of the story, where the heroine is escaping
from a lofty tower by walking a wire cable across a chasm, when the
villain cuts the slender strand, and at the same time the tower is blown
up. It is a thrill worth going miles to see, whereas you only have to go,
to the Victoria Theater.
$15,000 Mortgage Burned
at Ridge Avenue M. E.
The last debts on properties of
the Ridfe Avenue Methodist Episco
pal Church, Sixth and Herr streets,
have been met and the last mort
gage was burned last evening. Spe
cial services were held in the
church, in charge of the pastor, the
Rev. H. R. Bender.
The mortgages burned during the
services of yesterday totaled
$15,000. The campaign to raise the
funds necessary to meet the amount
has been conducted steadily during
the past year.
HARHISBUTtG TELEGRAPH
'Officials to Hear Plans
For New Park and Bridge
Discussed at Luncheon
Members of the State Boafd of
Public Grounds and Buildings May
or Daniel D. Koister, the City Com
missioners and City Clerk will at
tend the noon luncheon of the Har
risburg Chamber of Commerce* in
the Penn-Harris Hotel to-morrow,
when Df. J. E. Greiner and ArnoldT
W. Brunner, world-famous bridge
engineers and architects, will unfold
their plans for beautifying the Cap
itol grounds. The presence of the
City Commissioners will add an of
ficial aspect to the meeting, which
probably will be one of the most im
portant of the year for the Chamber
members.
So many requests for reservations
are being received at the Chamber
offices that members were warned
to-day that all reservations must be
made before 9 o'clock to-morrow
morning. Dr. Greiner's reputation
as a bridge engineer of wide experi
ence and Mr. Brunner's record as
the creator of New York's Morning
side Park and other famous civic
j centers all over the country are s
I well known here that many are anx-
I lous to hear them explain their plans
for the Capitol Park project. Both
addresses will be illustrated with
maps and drawings.*
Members who are planning to at
tend the meeting have been urged
to be in their places promptly, as
the fact that a number of other
meetings are scheduled for to-mor
row in the new hotel makes it im
perative that the meeting begin
promptly at noon.
FARM BUREAU MEETING.
Hiimrarlstnwn, Pa., March 10.— A
meeting under the auspices of the
Dauphin County Farm Bureau will
be held in the Hummelstown High
School building on 'Wednesday eve
ning at seven o'clock. G. 8. Bulkley,
of the department of dairy husbahd
.ry extension, at Pennsylvania State
College, and H. G. Njesley, county
agent, will be the speakers.
Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv.
I^fAMUSEfI^MFNTS^fI
MAJESTIC
Hl *Ths'u S Vaudeville lleadline—
rr™rival y Shop," lively musical
Aln r other attractions.
White I episode of the Pearl
Haider." ' " The L '* htnl "K
ORPHEUM
m i a, ! nee and night
~ dec Nash in "Rcmnfint "
,-aturda.v. matinee and night.' March
West" " ln the w °°"y
Wednesday matinee and night. March
cffe~"Oh,Boy ~V omstock "d Gest
To a„. . COLONIAL
n?„ 'j !?; m ," r , row and Wednesday-
Cheaters" 1 Young In "Cheating
T>V- da >'. Priday and Saturday —.
v* ul 'he Frederick in "The Woman
on the Index."
m . , REGENT
ro-day and to-morrow Pauline
w J lickI ick in "° ut of the Shadow." |
y _and Thursday Dorothyi
Gish Iti "The Hope Chest."
L _ VICTORIA
m£ ay ' to-morrow, Wednesday and;
Tnu red ay Annette Kellerman in
Queen of the Sea."
'Remnant," with Florence Nash as)
the-star, coming direct from a four 1
months' triumph at'
I-lorenee Nnsh the Morosco Theater. I
In "Hemnunt" New York, has been!
called a French "Peg
0 My Heart." With all* the added!
sparkle that the French element im
plies and a "Pollyanna" with a sav
ing sense of humor. Add to those in
dications, the lovable elfin misehief
ous personality of Florence Nash,
who has the reputation of getting
more laughs in a minute from her au
diences than any other Broadway
comedienne in the tftle role and situa
tions which have the French audacity.
a ~ sa 'd to be without any of the
offensive suggestions found in so
called p'rench comedies, and theater
goers of Harrisburg may expect a
real treat when "Remnant" comes to
the Orpheum Theater on Wednesday,
matinee and night.
"The judge said: 'There's too much
of you for a girl and not enough of
you for a woman—you're a remnant!'
and whenever I passed a policeman
after that, he said, 'Hello, Remnant!'
Now everybody calls me "Remnant.'
1 don't see why?"
"I'll tell you," said Tony. "Tn the
shops when a piece of stuff is left
over. It's called a remnant, and sold
at a bargain." y
"You mean to,say, I'm a bit of stuff
left over?"
There you hav,e "Remnant," the un
spoiled child of nature —the girl who
fived in the gutters of Paris, and yet
who came from them unspoiled to the
midst of a group of sophisticated
Parisians.
Seventh in the series of musical
comedies based on Captain Bud Fish
er's famous cartoon
"Mutt and Jrtt" characters. "Mutt
' and Jeff," will
come to the Orpheum next Saturday,
matinee and night. "Mutt and Jeff in
the Woolly West" is the title of the
vehicle furnished by their sponsor,
Gus Hill. No better opportunities can
Ibe eoneeived than are found in the
story of "Mutt and Jeff in the Woollv
West" for comedy situations, and
screamingly funny make-ups. Cow
girls, Mexicans, cow-punchers, all are
there to lend their aid in making
"Mutt and Jeff" happy, and some
times uncomfortable, but all for the
amusement of the onlookers.
"Oh, Boy!" the fourth annual New
York Princess Theater success, is the
far-famed musical suo
"Oli, Hoy!" cess presented by F.
Ray Comstock, which
will be seen at the Orpheum Theater,
Wednesday, matinee and night, March
19. It is coming with the original
cast reassmbled for a short tour for a
few selected iclties. "Oil, Bov!" is so
well known to playgoers that little
remains to be said. That it is the
smartest and brightest of all musical
comedies is a well-known fact.
"The Candy Shop," a lively musical
comedy offering presented by nine
people, is the Majesic's fea-
At the ture attraction the first
Majestic days of this week. The
stage settings are elabor
ate, the costumes gorgeous, and there
is also plenty of good comedy, sing
ing and dancing. Grouped around
this attraction are: Harvey. Heney and
Grace, clever trio in an instrumental
musical offering; The Doris Lester
Trio, presenting a eomedv skit en
titled "A Breeze That Blew;" Johnny
Johnston, in original contedv songs,
and Maertens and Arena, novelty ac
robats.
The Colonial Theater opens a three
day engagement with "Cheating
Cheaters," with Clara
Clnra Kimball Kimball Young as the
Young at star, in the role of
the Colonial Ruth Brockton. the
thief, alias "Ferris
the famous detective. She acts her
part with a calm reserve and dignitv
that arises above her two previous
efforts as "Ruth Brockton." in her
well-fitting, well-made tiding habit
she is both refreshing and beautiful'
and as "Ferris," she does her work In
a truly delightful manner. She is sun
ported with a well selected cast.
"Out of the Shadow," Pauline Fred
erick's rattling good vehicle at the
Regent Theater
Pauline Frederick to-day and to
nt negent To-iln.v morrow, is un .
usual in plot and
in artistic excellence. Miss Frederick
is widely known In the world of the
film. With even greater talent than
she displayed in "La Tosca," "The
Resurrection" and "The Eternal City"
she appears to good advantage in this
splendid and absorbing story. The
picture, by the way, is a film version
of E. W. Hornung's hook. "The
Shadow of the Rope," written by the
creator of "Raffles." A funny Mack
Sennett comedy will also be shown.
"The Hope Chest" Is the title of
Dorothy Gish's latest production
showing her as a smiling girl whose
grit conquered all obstacles. Miss
Gish will be seen Wednesday and
Thursday.
DLON CHOSEN PRESIDENT
Copenhagen, March 10. Premier
William J. Bios, of Wurttemburg, has
been elected president of that state
by the local national assembly, says
a dispatch from Stuttgart. i
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VICTORIA
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Gettysburg Merchant Shot
by Robbers Still Lives
Gettysburg, Pa., March 10.—The
condition of Abner Mills, the mer
chant who was shot two weeks ago
by two boys attempting to rob his
store, was slightly Improved during
the past week. The physicians say
that the Injured man is entirely too
weak to submit to any examination
that would determine definitely just
where the bullet is located. They
hope the missile has not lodged in a
vital part of the brain and that
he muy improve sufficiently to un
dergo an operation.
Since the tragedy the officers of
the law have been very careful in
their work and it is hardly safe
for a person that looks any ways
| suspicious at all to come about the
I town. Almost every night the lock-
I up is occupied by persons whom the
j police have reuson to believe should
REGENT THEATER
TODAY TOMORROW
Pauline Frederick
in her newest production
! "OUT OF THE SHADOW"
| founded on "Tlie Shadow of tlio
Rope,' by K. W. liomung
author of "Raffles"'
Also UOAHINU COMEDY
Wednesday Thursday
Dorothy Gish
In
"THE HOPE CHEST"
COMING "LITTLE \\ MEN"
'
STARTING TODAV
and continuing four days
Annette Kellerman
In Wm. Fox's New Spectacular,
Sensational Production
Queen of the Sea
Greater than any of this star's former films,
Queen of the Sea is a film story for grown ups, a
story that grips and thrills and to the
very end.
SEE
Marvelous High Dive Into Boiling Surf.
Destruction of Ship in Storm.
Ferrets attack woman.
Battle with Balls of Fire. v ,
Moonlight Surf Scenes.
Sensational Rescues at Sea.
Thrilling Escape From Tower of Knives and Swords.
Some of Fifty Sensational Scenes.
MONDAY —TUESDAY —WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
Victoria
fORPHEUM ""^Tednese^
VXJBWti SEATS TO-DAY —BEST SEATS, MATINEE, SI.OO
NIGHTS—SOc, 75c, SI.OO, $1.50, $2.00
Direct from 4 Months Triumph al Ihe Morosco Theatre N.Y
g < CHARLES EMERSON COOK
FLORENCE NASH
REMNANT
|iY.ar(- with ORRIN JOHNSON and New York l/Mcnihsarl
Cast and Production Intact |°S?!3S rTe |
MARCH 10, 1919.
not be left to run at largo through
out the night and are kept until they
can be examined the next morning.
BISHOP CONFIRMS CLASSES
Marietta, Pa., March 10. The
Rev. J. Henry Darlington, bishop of
the Harrisburg diocese of the Episco
pal Church, yesterday confirmed a
class at Marietta and in the evening
performed the rite of confirmation
at St. Paul's, at Columbia. Both
MAJESTIC
I no YOU I.IKK PIIETTY GIRLS,
CATCHY SONGS and
MUCH MELODY
See "THE CANDY SHOP"
A Whirlwind Musical Comedy.
I FOUR OTHER UNUSUAL ACTS
PEARL WHITE in
"THE LIGHTNING
RAIDER"
j* *
Tne Municipal Band
announces
; The fcecond Dance of Its
Series
Monday Evening, March 10th at
WINTERDALE HALL
I Hand AO pieces, orchrslrn, 10
ptrees. Continuous dunelng from
I g.15 to 11.13. Ladies, 40 ttrnts;
j gentlemen, HO cents. Come and
! bring your friends.
church choirs were augmented fo*
the occasion, and rendered special
music. The bishop preached two
sermons.
COLONIAL
TO-DAY
Tuesday and Wednesday
CLARA
KIMBALL
! ' YOUNG
In a screen version of the
•adwav success. In the
roll of Ruth Broeton, the
i thief, alias Ferris, the
I famous detective.
Better than any film she
has ever done, and sup
ported by an excellent
| cast.
CHEATING
CHEATERS
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