A Royal Drama

Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Soederman-land, second son of King Gustaf, wrote his first play--Kinangonzi. The Prince, it was pointed out, was merely upholding the traditional talents of the House of Ponte Corvo; for King Oscar II was an internationally known painter, Prince Eugen, brother of King Gustaf, a well-known author-explorer.

Kinangonzi was played for the first time at Stockholm. The theatre was crowded with a distinguished audience, including the Swedish Royal Family and the whole Diplomatic Corps.

At the final curtain tremendous enthusiasm was evinced. The actors were called "20 times" amid deafening applause. The author, said to be the tallest and thinnest man in Sweden, "was forced six times to acknowledge the plaudits of the appreciative audience."

The story of the play is about South Africa. The hero is an Englishman. He left England because of a woman, but meets her again in Africa. But now he is the Chief of a tribe of pigmies. Their love is revived, but in the last act the woman is pierced by the spear of a pigmy.