Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matty Cortes, at Miami Beach's Yacht South Seas, a 171-ft. ship formerly owned by the Woolworth family, is a 38-year veteran of the cocktail circuit, specializes in the sophisticated songs of the 1930s and '40s. Hunched over his piano in the ship's dimly lit, couch-lined salon, he plays with a rolling, lilting style that is guaranteed not to rock the patrons or the boat, which is moored at the 79th Street causeway. The son of a New York Philharmonic percussionist, he says that the chatter of the customers does not bother...
...Light on History. As the person closest to Stalin during much of his brutal, 30-year reign, Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin's death she was close to the men who ran the Kremlin-until the mid-1950s, when Khrushchev suddenly launched his destalinization program. It was possibly the Soviet's destalinization, in fact, that prompted Svetlana to defect. No one, of course, could be sure. Like almost everything connected with...
Died. Mischa Auer, 61, character actor who played seedy aristocrats, slightly frayed remittance men, or mad Cossacks in scores of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...
Died. Nelson Eddy, 65, romantic baritone, whose golden tones and handsome blond looks blended so perfectly with Jeanette MacDonald's clear soprano and redheaded beauty that they became Hollywood's most celebrated pair in the late 1930s and '40s, singing their way through scores of love duets (Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit...
Died. Dave Dreyer, 72, Tin Pan Alley composer who made his fame in the 1930s by writing such toe-tapping tunes as Cecilia, Me and My Shadow, Back in Your Own Back Yard; of a kidney disease; in Manhattan...