Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-18
BERL|NKEEPSEYES
0NROYAL WEDDING
Society Deeply Interested in
the Plans of Princess VIC
toria Louise.
KAISER INSISTS UPON
OBSERVING OLD CUSTOM
Bride Danced Out Of Ranks Of
Maidens by Courtiers-
peror's Business Ventures.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
BERLIN, May Z. 1913.
Naturally all Berlin-or at least tn,
part of Berlin that takes an interest II
the doings of society-is taken up with
the wedding of Princess Victoria Louise
to occur May "a, and the city is already
beginning to decorate itself in honor OF
the event.
Although the greater part of the young
princess trousseau has come from Paris
fact which has brought much bitter
criticism on the part of the press. which
is now preaching a general boycotting OF
French goods, Princess Victoria Louise
has been doing a good deal of shopping
in Berlin. and has, in fact, visited nearly
all the large emporiums in the neigh
borhood of Friedrichstrasse district, and
all the furniture, carpets and curtains
which have been sent to her modest lit
tie home are Of German make. Some OF
the furniture has been made from designs
by the kaiser himself. who in the midst
of all foreign and domestic political ex-
element. has been very much taken UP
with the wedding arrangements.
The hotels of the city have already felt
the influence of the wedding. for there
is evidently going to be big invasion.
especially of Americans, who have en-
gagged all the best suites of rooms at the
Adlon. kaiserhof, Bristol and other first
class hotels So that the less fOreseeing
and enterprising German mobiles. who
have no permanent town residences here
are compelled to be satisfied with the
less pretentiOus accommodations at prices
which are startling compared with the
ordinary ones.
Relapse to Follow.
After the wedding Berlin will undoubt-
eddy relapse into the gloom which pre-
coded the royal event, and which is pri-
marily due to the coming new taxes,
which cast their shadows before them
The first Berlin season. promises to be
a very dull one
more fond of the dramatic and operate
arts than the BerlinerS, and in proper
ton to its size Berlin has almost as many
theaters as Paris, but all managers are
complaining of a steady decline in the
receipts. Here, as everywhere else, this
is partly due to the cinematograph thea
ters. but even more to the fact that peo-
pie are afraid of spending money, and
there are no signs that conditions will
improve much. for Berlin has no annual
make up for the losses OK the winter.
During the last three months nearly half
score of the city theaters have had to
close their doors. Among these were at
least two of the most popular ones in the
city.
An English company which came over
here to play Shakespeare under the
auspices of the German Pathological So
cfety has met with a very cool recep-
ton. for Germans require acting to be
realistic and true to life. and no one
here is able to enjoy the mannerisms
actors. and prefer to see Shakespeare S
plays performed by their own actors.
Permits .Good-Natured TESTS.
The kaiser does not mind a bit being
made a target for good-natured jests in
the comedy "Majoiika,' which everybody
expected would be forbidden by the censor
He is about to add to his business ven
lures at Cadinen- His pottery works are
already the principal industry of the
town. and are paying a rapidly increasing
profit. but the kaiser Is said 70 have had
plans drawn up for the building of a
large margarine factory.
There is no use denying the fact, the
kaiser is a smart man in more ways than
one. and as a business man who looks
ahead he has few equals. Now he has
figured out that with the new large taxes
about to be imposed the German people
will not be able to afford the luxury OF
eating butter. and so he is going te
supply them with the best substitute fol
ii, vegetarian margarine, and he can dc
this while using nothing but German raw
materials so there will be nothing tC
say against his enterprise even from q
patriotic viewpoint. The milk he will ge,
from one or more of his own dairy farms
and the nuts from which the oil is to bs
pressed from the German colonies ir
Africa, where he owns a number Of palm
plantations himself.
What his friends, the German agra
rians, will say to the kaiser entering into
competition with them and possibly pres.
down the price of butter is no. known
But there is not the slightest doubt tina
the kaiser's plan is an excellent one. fol
in all Prussia there Is not a single mar
garine factory All the margarine usee
is imported from Denmark and Holland
where several of the factories give
profit of over 100 per cent annually OF
the original investment.
The idea of eating margarine supplied
by the kaiser and perhaps delivered a
your door by delivery automobiles witt
the imperial coat OF arms. possibly thanked
by cow. a cocoanut and factory chin
new looks very attractive and by nc
means absurd, for. like every smart bust
ness man, the kaiser knows all about th'
value OF advertising
But one thing is certain, We shall never
again see the suggestion brought vi
again in the reichstag of cOloring mar
garine a dark blue or poisonous green
which would spell ruin to the kaiser.
new enterprise.
Wedding Date Officially Announced
| Official announcement has just beer
| made of the ceremonies with which TIT
wedding of Princess Victoria Louise will
be celebrated and which have been dis
/ cussed in detail between the kaiser an,
the family of the groom. who. being in
clined toward English puritanfanism, ha'
objected 10 some of the rather robust an,
boisterous details of a real German wed
! ding.
The announcement leaves no doubt tina
the kaiser has carried OF the palm o
victory for the wedding Is TO be gen
uine Hohenzollern one. The bride VII
be danced out OF the ranks of maidens b
Young courtiers and officers of the guards
| who will also escort her to the brida
chamber with a torchlight procession. an
her garters will be dropped and cut ins
little bits to be divided among the guest
after the wedding feast.
| III the kaiser Is in good hurnor, as every
thing seems to show that he will be. h
! will undoubtedly in the narrower famil
circle deliver little speeches which wi
make the King and Queen OF England fes
! confused