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...Hungarian-born Alexander Korda famed movie producer—Knight Bachelor. Wife Merle Oberon may now be called Lady Korda...
...best sequence of Lincoln photographs ever issued in book form has been edited by a Hungarian-born emigre journalist, Stefan Lorant. The book includes more than 100 photographs of Lincoln, many of them never before published; some 300 photographs of Lincoln's associates, advisers, generals, friends and enemies. One remarkable sequence is a photographic record of Lincoln's transformation from a rather smug frontier lawyer (Picture No. 1) to the brooding savior of the Union (Picture No. 2 taken on a broken plate five days before he was shot). Before Editor Lorant nobody had ever thought...
Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born pianist and greatest living composer of light opera, is of an age which the swift and relentless stride of time has left alive only in memories. His name was greatest when whispered by ladies in ruffled hoop-skirts to frock-coated gentlemen seated next to them in their box-seats. Like those of his fellow-spirit, Victor Herbert, his opera stories are now watery wine to a world once intoxicated by the theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens...
Marriage Revealed. Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 64, shrewd, walrusy, retired German Minister of Economics; and Mauzika Vogler, 33, Hungarian-born art expert; in Munich, March 6. Dr. Schacht's first wife died last year...
...recent years, Stokowski has been Philadelphia's conductor more in name than in fact. While he gadded, the orchestra's responsibilities fell upon the dependable shoulders of Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy. Now Ormandy has a five-year contract as full conductor. One cause of the final break between Stokowski and the orchestra's directors: competition between the Maestro's Columbia recordings with his All American Youth Orchestra and his Victor recordings with the Philadelphians (on which Stokowski and the orchestra association share royalties). Stokowski said simply that he would be busy with a new youth orchestra...