Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged...
Miss Rogers plays a Brooklyn ex-strip-teaser who unwittingly marries one of Hitler's smartest finger-men, an Austrian baron (Walter Slezak). Gary Grant is an Irish-American reporter who brings Miss Rogers to her senses, helps her to do a grand tour of wartime Europe. The pair are in on the kill of every European country from Austria to France. They dabble in espionage with Albert Dekker, and discover, at long last, that they are intended for each other...
...these disparate ingredients: topical tragedy, pulmotored patriotism, slick-paper romance, and anything-for-a-laugh comedy. There are moments when Director McCarey has the sleight of hand it takes. Albert Bassermann makes a small prize package of a fierce, old Polish general. Pudgy Walter Slezak, as the dastardly baron, is as slickly untrustworthy as a bomb in aspic. But Principals Rogers and Grant exude a general impression that they know something has gone very wrong, and that nothing much can be done about...
Viennese operetta, the champagne of the Habsburgs, is doing its biggest U.S. business in years. In Manhattan during the past few months the lilting waltzes of Chocolate Soldier, The Merry Widow, Gypsy Baron, Beggar Student and Fledermaus have drawn throngs of moist-eyed listeners to Carnegie Hall and the Lewisohn Stadium. Produced in German by troupes of Viennese refugees, or in English by personable companies of youthful U.S. singers, Johann Strauss, Karl Millocker and Franz Lehar have played to packed houses for weeks at a time...
Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...