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...speech, and Flagstad is a trouper. She has been singing opera now for 37 years, and the theater is in her blood and background. Her father worked in Oslo's Central Theater as a violinist and conductor, her mother as a vocal coach. The first score that flaxen-haired Kirsten ever "yelled out" as a child was Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. She learned Lohengrin before...
...most horrible thing was a little girl, about 13. She stood on the sidewalk with some other kids, just a few yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...
...confused with flaxen-haired, four-year-old Charley Ross, who disappeared in 1874, victim of a widely heralded Philadelphia kidnaping, or with President Truman's press secretary...
Many of the people who crowded into Manhattan's red candy-striped Embassy Club, where it costs $2.50 for a hamburger, didn't understand a word he sang. But the Sinatra of France, handsome, flaxen-haired Charles Trenet, was a big hit, regardless. In the audience, and clapping hard, were such diverse celebrities as Lana Turner and Leon Henderson. The language of mugging, strutting and rolling the eyes was universal, as Maurice Chevalier discovered before him. After four encores. Fiance's No. i crooner bubbled in French: "In France they understand what I sing. Here they understand...
...flaxen-haired, Swedish-born Princess Ann Mari Bismarck and her complacent husband, Prince Otto, had enthralled Rome with their lavish entertainments. Otto had an unlimited allowance from the German Embassy and instructions to let the Princess go her calculated way. Ann Mari's grande affaire with Ciano's Chief of Cabinet, ardent Filippo Anfuso, had more than repaid Berlin...