Word: antone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Point of View. In Milwaukee, on trial for drunken driving, Anton Schmalz, 62, admitted that he had been drinking Martinis "by the teacupful," but denied that he was drunk when arrested, explained that he had been forced to zigzag his car down the street "to dodge all the drunken drivers" coming at him from the opposite direction...
...Pavlova, Tamara Toumanova convinced me that she is every bit as immortal as the great Pavlova. Delicate, sensuous, and with an unforgettable, fragile beauty, I am sure she does not have an equal on the ballet stage. She floats, rather than dances, through Saint-Saen's The Swan and Anton Rubinstein's Valse Caprice...
...remnants of Pushkin's plot are recognizable. The action takes place in old St. Petersburg, where a power hungry young officer slyly schemes to obtain the secret of success at faro from the wizened old countess (who sold her soul to get it). Anton Walbrook, who doesn't need a sound track, plays the officer; the rest of the cast are competent English actors, quite at home in their nineteenth century dress...
Tight Budget. In Milwaukee, when police arrested Anton Lagozny for drunkenness and asked how he had accumulated a bank balance of more than $12,000 on a $50-a-week salary, he replied: "I live frugally, spending money only for meat, beer and whisky." Bare Essentials. In Batavia, Ohio, after jurors in a murder trial protested to Judge Harry Britton that his "no newspapers" ban was putting them hopelessly behind in their comic strips, the court instructed bailiffs to clip out the funnies and distribute them daily...
...Atonalist Anton von Webern's whispering, taut vignettes, Five Movements for String Quartet...