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Says she: "I fell in love with him at first sight." As Premier of Prussia he controls the State Theatre for which she acted. "I decide whether a player is Jewish or not!" he has boasted. Deciding he loved Emmy, Premier Göring created for her the title "State Actress," equivalent to prima donna assoluta.
Stork Guffaws. Not superstitious, Bridegroom Göring masterfully ignored the general belief that one should not see one's bride on the wedding day before the ceremony. Piling his great bulk into an open Mercedes, already half full of roses and tulips, he drove to his Emmy's house on the same swank street as the U. S. Embassy, picked her up, drove on to the Realmchancellery, picked up Best Man Adolf Hitler and drove down a lane of 33,000 uniformed Nazis of both sexes to
Berlin's City Hall where 6 ft. 6 in. Mayor "Long Heinrich" Sahm performed the civil service.
For this General Göring had invented a completely new uniform with what seemed to be a great white bib jutting from under his lantern jaw. With no time to change uniforms at the City Hall, he whipped off his bib, snapped on a different detachable chestload of medals, donned a shimmering white scarf across his blue-grey chest as
General of the Flyers and was off with his bride to Berlin Cathedral. Guffaws from the populace were attributed to a stork which sedately circled the Cathedral spire at the crucial moment, then flapped off toward East Prussia.
As befits a German Emperor, which he is in all but name, Realmleader Hitler sat alone ahead of the congregation. Realmbishop Ludwig Muller pronounced the words of holy matrimony, almost the only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard.
Cried the Realmbishop in benediction, "The love of the entire nation, from the Leader to the humblest citizen, accompanies you this day."
As Herr and Frau Göring left the Cathedral her train was carried not by bridesmaids but by "bridesboys," ripe, apple-cheeked Nazi favorites.
Hams, Jokes, Diadems. At the jolly champagne wedding breakfast Best Man Hitler seemed as much out of things as he always does at a party. Wedding gifts ranged from dozens of Westphalian hams to the manuscript of Arabella presented by Opera Composer Richard Strauss. No. 1 Nazi Jew-baiter Julius Streicher, who always does the odd thing, presented a huge volume which he said contains all jokes current in Germany about the bridegroom. Eccentric Rear Admiral von Levetzow, Berlin Police Chief, gave "a fragment of a shell fired at Jutland," but rich Germans currying favor piled up $400,000 worth of presents.