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Show German Actor Honored. Frledrich Haase, the German actor who died recently, was the proud possessor pos-sessor of the Iffiand ring, which, by the will of that famous actor, was to be "worn by the most worthy." When August Wilhelm Iffiand died the ring, made of iron and thickly set with diamonds, dia-monds, was given to Ludwig Devrient, irom whom it descended to Emil Devrient. De-vrient. The next "most worthy" was Theodor Doring, after whose death it came into the possession of Friedrich Haase. At various times since his retirement re-tirement from the stage Haase had named Mitterwurzer, Matkowski and Josef Kainz as worthy of the Iffiand ring, but they all left the "stage of life" before Haase, who, after consultation con-sultation with his friends, concluded to name Albert Bassermann as the ring heir, and he now wear3 it. |