Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano Agnes Davis emit a wailing postlude. Strapping young Agnes Davis, who has made her mark at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, was supposed to be a Countess Geschwitz, as bewitched by Lulu as were the many men who loved her. The whole story seemed revolting in its episodic outline. But Berg's music was not to be discounted. Murky, rumbly drums actually suggested an evil, brooding power. The entire orchestra chattered over one gruesome death, grew...
Omitted from this year's New York Social Register are: Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., author of Farewell to Fifth Avenue; Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz; Mrs. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin, wife of Band Leader Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin; Henry Huddleston Rogers III, at whose Downingtown, Pa., farmhouse Torchsinger Evelyn Hoey was shot dead...
...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...
...Great Waltz is built around the careers of the Johann Strausses--father and son. Guy Robertson lends grace to the figure of Young Strauss as an artist in love, praying for recognition for his music, and balked by a jealous father. Marie Burke is very satisfying as the Countess who sponsors his career and finally brings him his "great chance...
...Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio" set in which Oakie and Wadsworth, as two radio performers marooned in the castle of a crazy countess (Lyda Roberti), are able to see a series of broadcasts in which the other members of the cast do their turns. As self-conscious as it sounds, it is an artifice of which the only redeeming feature is that it may suit the baser tastes of the case-hardened radio...