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Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, bestselling scratcher of the seamy side, was called to Hollywood to write the movie script for Feodor Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband...
Hurok obviously enjoys hobnobbing with his famous clients. Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool. He so admired his first big name artist, Feodor Chaliapin, that he followed him to Europe to get his business-and lost $100,000 on him. Once Chaliapin and Hurok, dressed in rags, spent a night in a Bowery flophouse. It was a gag on Chaliapin's part; Hurok saw to it that newspaper photographers found out about...
Unlucky Nine. In 1907 Mahler came to New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. With such great singers as Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin and Emma Fames he conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and the Met's first performance of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
...Polish Government in London also was not too big to be defied. In Poland, Soviet authorities arrested Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the Polish London Prime Minister-or at least such was the report in London. When Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was questioned about it in Parliament, Soviet Ambassador Feodor Gusev rose and left the house...
...west side of the Danube, burly Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin directed the Battle of the Hungarian Sea (Lake Balaton). Through the rain-soaked hills his armies sped almost as fast as if the weather were good. Infantry was switched to the muddy back roads, vehicles were given the right of way on paved highways. The Germans, forced to retreat without preparation, cluttered the roads, lost their vehicles in the backwoods mud, fell prey to Russian encirclements. Tolbukhin's forces reached the south shores of the great inland lake, quickly cleared it of the last knots of German defense, then...