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Veronica Lake, streamlined Rapunzel, whose divorce from Major John Detlie, peacetime Hollywood art director, becomes final on Dec. 2, announced her engagement to Andre de Toth, 29, Hungarian-born cinema director...
Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of World War I, Hungarian-born Marcel Fodor set out for the Balkans with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...
...from Gangdom. Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy is the only important U.S. conductor who ever climbed from the pit of a Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...
Political Sophisticate. But intense, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg is on her way as a master politician. She began politicking at 17 at Wadleigh High, a girls' school where she managed to head up-and off-a strictly masculine rebellion against compulsory military training for high-school students. But she later learned the trade all the way from Tammany ward heeling to the Governor's mansion. Years ago she learned that high-sounding central Government jobs may involve more politics than production-or praise...