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Merle Oberon, 33, almond-eyed, Tasmanian-born cinemactress, announced that she planned to divorce Sir Alexander Korda, 51, slim, Hungarian-born British cinema producer, because they had failed "to work out separate lives and careers." Lady Korda, who became a star in her husband's best movie, The Private Life of Henry VIII, said that during five years of marriage they had seen each other infrequently, added: "I feel . . . so awful. . . Alex and I have been friends for such a long time. I hope everything will be all right with us as friends." Sir Alexander arrived in Manhattan from...
Married. Veronica Lake, 25, cascade-haired cinemactress; and Andre de Toth, 31, Hungarian-born cinema director (Dark Waters); she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
...Newcomers. Last week both claque and audience found several things worth applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
Because exhibitions as varied in content as "Art of the United Nations" depend considerably on good showmanship, the Institute hired a topnotch designer to install it: 37-year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes...
...Chemistry (the 1944 prize will be awarded later)-Georg von Hevesy, 59, Hungarian-born professor at Copenhagen's Institute of Theoretical Physics, now a refugee in Stockholm...