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...Hollywood, French-born Cinemactress Corinne Calvert filed a $1,000,000 slander suit against Hungarian-born Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor for telling a columnist that Corinne was cockney English, not French at all. From London Zsa Zsa replied: "It's much easier to get a million dollars out of a rich husband than it is out of another actress." At week's end, to the entire satisfaction of her pressagent, Corinne recalled another galling insult: "Zsa Zsa said once that I had no breasts. Well, any time she feds like making a contest...
Last week before a Paris audience Frank Martin placed a major work: his new, half-hour-long Violin Concerto. Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet and Hungarian-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti made it a labor of love, took five curtain calls. Martin rose twice from his box seat, bowed shyly. Said Szigeti: "A truly-extraordinary concerto . . . It is caressingly sweet and yet it avoids all grandiloquence." Said Conductor Ansermet: "A great work...
Divorced. Joe Pasternak, 50, Hungarian-born movie producer (Three Smart Girls, The Great Caruso); by onetime Movie Starlet Dorothy Hallenbeck (Dorothy Darrell), 31, who charged extreme mental cruelty, e.g., he criticized her before her friends; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Burbank, Calif...
...Hungarian-born Laszlo Halasz, 46, admitted that he is a slave driver:' "I believe in that." And he is often sarcastic ("Sing a B-flat rather than a flat B!"). But he could hardly believe his whole company was against him. Within 24 hours, he gathered 45 testimonial letters from singers, conductors, and musicians. City Opera's topnotch Conductor Jean Morel promptly announced his resignation in protest. Halasz refused to resign, demanded an open hearing. But the board's mind seemed to be made up. Conductor Joseph Rosenstock was named to direct the spring season, opening...
...Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared...