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Show -. ,Jf j Maximillen Harden comes from a Polish family m M in Posen His father's name was Witowski. He Vi J was th,PrPrlQtor of a large textile mill Through 1' I unfortiate circumstances and reverses he lost practically all his property Young Witkowski left home at an early age, went on the stage, and took the name Maximilien Harden. In the late "eighties he went to Berlin to Beek an engagement. engage-ment. There he met Fraulein von Schabelska, a HuBsian star, at that time the faorite with the theatre-goers in the Kaiser's capital. She persuaded per-suaded him to take up journalism, and induced Paul Lindau, then leading theatrical manager in Berlin and publisher of a weekly magazine, Die iGegenwart, to put Harden on the staff of that magazine. mag-azine. Soon there appeared a series of reviews, criticisms, and articles in the weekly and other publications of so unusual a stylo and point of view they began to attract general attention. They were signed "Apostata." Harden began his career ca-reer in Berlin a little more than a year before the youthful emperor, William II, on March 10, 1890, dropped overboard Germany's greatest pillage, the ship of state, Prince Otto von Bismarck. |