Word: herta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmonious Feeling. Lean, long-legged Noel Haviland Field was born in London of an English mother and an American father. In 1920 he came to the U.S. with his German wife Herta, went to Harvard. In the early '30s he worked for the State Department's Western European section. In 1936 he switched to the disarmament section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Herta, it was rumored, did not like...
...last May Noel Field, ostensibly bound for Prague, left his wife in Switzerland and disappeared. After two months Herta Field went to Prague to search for him. She found no trace. She sent a plea to his brother to come and help. Brother Hermann Field, a sometime architect, professor, refugee worker and tourist guide, flew posthaste to Prague and from there to Warsaw in search of Noel...
...Czechoslovakia, Hermann was not aboard; his name had been crossed off the manifest. That was the last anyone heard of Hermann. Noel's wife wrote Hermann's wife, who was in England, telling her that Hermann too had disappeared. That was the last anyone ever heard of Herta. Last week, Mrs. Hermann Field took the case to the State Department...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
Juicy Item. The faded springtime appetite of the newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...