AUSTRIA: Frau Anna

A little printed notice appeared in the Wiener Zeitung last week and with it passed another relic of oldtime imperial Vienna, the Vienna of Strauss waltzes and jangling, spur-heeled lieutenants.

"The affairs of Frau Anna Sacher," said the Wiener Zeitung, "have been placed under the administration of a trustee."

A friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the...

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