Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Psychoanalytic Congress in Paris, Freud's brilliant biographer, Ernest Jones, 78 (see cut), sat between Princess Marie Bonaparte (lifetime patroness of the movement) and Freud's analyst daughter Anna, reflectively fingered a newly grown beard which was trimmed, by no coincidence, in the shape favored by the late great Sigmund Freud himself...
...works from the middle period of Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the great German painters of the early 16th century. The 10¾-by-16⅛-in. wood panels, described by experts as among Cranach's finest portraits, show Moritz Buchner, mayor of Leipzig, and his wife Anna, elaborately dressed and richly bejeweled, the man gazing at the world with shrewd but not unkind eyes, the woman modest, grave, rather sad. The portraits roused considerable excitement in German art circles when they were shown in 1928 in Frankfurt, later made their way via Switzerland to Chicago...
...marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...
...Take Two . . . Take Three." In Butterfly the takes sometimes lasted less than a minute, sometimes ran for as much as twelve minutes. Later, in the control foyer, the singers listened in anguish to the playbacks while Mohr kept up a running commentary: "That's too heavy there, Anna; in the next line you can be as tragic as you wish. You're weighing it down a little, maestro. Diction, diction. It's ECCO, Anna, not echo. We must hear every word...
Married. Rex Harrison (real name: Reginald Carey Harrison), 49, British-born actor of stage (My Fair Lady) and screen (Anna and the King of Slam); and Kay Kendall (real name: Kay Justine Kendall McCarthy), 31, British cinemactress (Genevieve); he for the third time (his second: Actress Lilli Palmer), she for the first; in Manhattan...