Word: cobblers
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...Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The poetry, of course, is in the music rather than the anecdote. This poetry is lost, but the silent Meistersinger moves with a light-footedness impossible in grand opera. Clearly these capable German actors like their. material and understand it. They play the old roles slyly, fast and broadly -the whimsical Hans...
Famed but false is the story that infatuated Victoria dubbed Subkoff "Baron" herself with a sword belonging to her ex-Imperial brother. Her diary is the best proof that Subkoff was presented to her as a Russian nobleman exiled but honorable. Actually his father was a cobbler. He himself has admitted practicing the lowest profession?pimping?at Marseilles, where he guided low-minded tourists to the foulest stews in France. But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young...
...Manhattan, Antonio Laspino, cobbler, secured a gun and a hunter's license, went to Van Cortlandt Park, wandered about shooting at songbirds, hitting golfers. When arrested he proudly showed his license, wondered why he was fined...
...Berlin, one Max Hinel, 22, n 5-pound cobbler, ate 75 eggs in ten and a half minutes, thus beating the former world's record by one egg, 90 seconds. Champion Hinel's training meals Consisted of two tureens of potato soup, 40 eggs or four pounds of preserved meat with bread...
...major operations to his credit up to last week, he reigned as Chief Surgeon of a group of Soviet hospitals at Kiev. Nurses sometimes fainted at the gory gusto of his "carving." But always Comrade Dr. Nelski sewed up his gaping incisions with admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan Kolesnikov, his true profession shoemaking. Eight years ago, amid the chaos of post-Revolution Russia, he stole the diploma and paraphernalia...