At the proud old Theater an der Wien last week a story was enacted which every good Viennese knows: the courtship of young Emperor Franz Josef and Elizabeth, 16-year-old, harum-scarum daughter of Bavaria's Duke Max. Elizabeth, whose nickname was Sissy, was the favorite of her father who roved the forests with woodcutter friends, played the zither, behaved more like a peasant than a duke. Sissy's shrewish mother intended the elder daughter Helene to be Franz Josef's wife. Sissy went along with them when the Bavarian duchess took Helene to Ischl to meet the...
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