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...Manhattan from Lisbon came handsome, Hungarian-born George H. Mendelssohn, 29, looking rather more like a U. S. collegiate than the great-great-grandson of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Before going off to join the U. S. Army, Emigre Mendelssohn confided that in his own musical composition he stuck to jazz -"classical jazz...
Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel...
...Weston. Picked to show the tremendous variety of methods and subjects used by cameramen of the past 97 years, the exhibition contained prints from hoary calotype* and wet-plate negatives, documentaries by the Civil War's camerace Matthew Brady, sentimental Victorian landscapes, modern news photographs, dadaist shadowgraphs by Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy and U. S. Modernist Man Ray. Surprised visitors found that some of photography's finest workmanship was very old stuff...
...Germany. Another was the reputation of Sir Samuel as Britain's most notorious appeaser. A third was the Duke of Windsor's prolonged stay in Madrid, where he conferred with Sir Samuel and with Franco. Safe in the U. S., the Chicago Daily News's Hungarian-born Correspondent M. W. Fodor wrote a sensational story of which the two main points were: 1)Germany wants to put the Duke back on the throne as its puppet (which has been journalists' gossip for months); 2) Edward's little Duchess was once the good friend of Joachim...
Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak...