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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Comedian Mischa Auer, 36; and Singer Joyce Duskin Hunter, 25; each for the second time; day after his wife Norma Tillman's divorce became final; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Sing Another Chorus," despite its many defects, doesn't have a single redeeming feature. Poorly constructed and weakly east, it started out with two strikes and the direction added a third. Mischa Auer tries so hard to be funny that he isn't. Proper timing will permit you to escape this and still catch an excellent cartoon and Endicott Peabody II on the Movietone News All-American...

Author: By E. G., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...known to this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin Concerto may recall that his style in that is brilliant and flashy, pretty much on the slick side, and he seems to be the only one of the Leopold Auer brood of violinists who has developed this way. It would be interesting to compare his concert Sunday with the old recording, and if the two jibe, to draw interesting and appropriate conclusions on the state of musical taste in Europe, where Huberman has enjoyed such fame...

Author: By Janse Barich, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/30/1941 | See Source »

...blanket title: Forecast) that it hopes will make hay when the summer doldrums are over. Last year, from a similar showcase, CBS sold Duffy's Tavern, now sponsored by Schick Magazine Repeating Razor Co. Besides Marlene's Scheherazade, other straw-hat sustainers this year will include Mischa Auer, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vanda's Show | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Except for the devotees of Comedian Mischa Auer, Russian names have always been tongue-twisters; to Mischa and his fans they have been side-splitters. The Battle of Russia is the most unpronounceable campaign of World War II. Communiques are peppered with place names in not only Russia but Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, East Prussia, Poland, Rumania. The most important, together with rough approximations in English phonetics of their pronunciations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Wootsk & Pootsk | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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