Word: albertina
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...girl with her hair down, Americans at Work last week took U. S. listeners backstage at a Broadway show, a Chicago hotspot, a Hollywood set. At the first-act curtain of Du Barry Was a Lady in Manhattan, Americans at Work cornered Betty Grable's understudy, a blondy, Albertina Rasch alumna named Ruth Farm; and a tall, taffy-haired trouper named Ann Graham, from Birmingham, Ala. Ann, the chattier, said she had sung with Goodman and Vallée, aimed at musicomedy stardom and then marriage with a theatre-world mate. Said velvety Ann, discouraging any number of unseen...
...with all the romantic Viennese cliches-handsome soldiers, sidewalk cafes, double weddings, fine pastries and beer, even a Russian countess. The costumes are shrill in color and changed with great frequency the better to dazzle the patrons. Excellent dancing by men and girl choruses and by a well trained Albertina Rasch ballet adds pleasing motion whenever the singing duet is carried away by one of its arias...
Zoologists Fantham and Porter "have been trying to improve their status and to keep various members out of trouble." Most exasperating are Generatrix Charlotte's twins Genevieve and Albertina, who are 25 or 26 years old, 3 ft. 11 in. tall. "No amount of coaxing, flattery or bribery will induce them to let us take photographs or to sketch them. An explanation of this dislike of photography perhaps may be that provided by Albertina. . . . She flashed on the writers and announced: 'Give you my picture? A photo? Not me! The last chap I gave my picture to showed...
...Albertina and Genevieve "are close companions and, while simple in many ways, exhibit a certain amount of sharpness and craftiness of an unexpected type. . . . One of these twins has an illegitimate baby girl of 2 years, but neither the other members of the family nor any outsider knows which twin is the mother. The only remark that can be elicited from the pair of them is: 'We have one baby between...
...things that make the Great Waltz worth going to see are Hazard Short's brilliant stage effects, the lovely evolutions of the Albertina Rasch ballet--and, above all, the Strauss Waltzes which weaves their way through the production casting a spell of Viennese laughter and gayety...