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When he tried to help an angler pull in a 400-lb. tuna while boating off Elsinore, Prince Axel of Denmark, who once rescued a Swedish cinemactress from drowning, was dragged into the water. Into his boat the angler safely pulled both fish and Prince...
...John Barrymore), Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is bored by court life, with a prince too sluggish to produce an heir. She takes to running about town with the sinister Duc d'Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut), a procedure which leads to a chance meeting with a young Swedish nobleman. Count Axel Fersen (Tyrone Power). Axel and Marie do not hit it off very well at first but a year or two later -just after Marie has made the King angry by calling Madame du Barry a streetwalker-they meet again, at the house of Count Mercy (Henry Stephenson). This time they...
...Viennese Karl Schaefer, who had held the title seven years running. Something of a blade, Kaspar often wears trousers rather than tights, always wears a grin on his dimpled pink face. His greatest accomplishment, however, is jumping. He is only 5 ft. 5 in. tall, yet one of his Axel Paulsen jumps has been measured as over 4 ft. 6 in. high, 18 ft. 6 in. long. In last week's Carnival, for which his billings were changed (for diplomatic reasons) from "Champion of Austria" to "Champion of Vienna," he went through a routine of spurts, leaps, loops...
Last week Edmund Wilson again demonstrated how consistently he thinks in critical terms. The demonstration: a collection of ten essays that range from an account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James...
...from Naples, 23 miles away, correspondents cornered Stokowski in the Hotel Caruso, where he had gone to telephone. Was his companion Greta Garbo? Were they married? Would they be? To all such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...