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...steps into the spotlight and throws a nightlong temper tantrum, the dramatic results are explosively and corrosively alive. But when he goes rummaging through history for his theme, he is far less successful. This play is about Alfred Redl, a homosexual officer in the army of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was blackmailed by the Russians into turning traitor. Unfortunately, Osborne's characters are not immersed in history; they merely wear it like a costume...
Thus did one of the less attractive customs of the West come to the Communist world for the first time since 1956, when a Hungarian airliner was seized and diverted to West Germany. In another episode, a gun-waving 17-year-old from Detroit forced the crew of a Mexico City to Miami Pan American jetliner to fly to Havana. The two hijackings brought to 56 the total reported this year (47 to Havana alone). They also proved once again that no airliner anywhere is immune...
Though Burns seems in many respects to be a typical New England Yankee, he was born in Eastern Galicia, then a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now part of the Ukraine. An earnest scholar, he was able to translate the Talmud into Polish and German by the time he was six. His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy...
Died. Rod La Rocque, 70, movie matinee idol of the '20s and '30s, who rose to stardom in such silent swashbucklers as Captain Swagger and The Love Pirates, married the Hungarian heartthrob Vilma Banky in one of the film colony's splashiest weddings in 1927, and in defiance of all Hollywood tradition remained married to her forever after; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills...
...Patriot for Me spans the years 1890 to 1913 in the officer corps of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lieutenant Alfred Redl (Maximilian Schell) is a kind of self-made upstart in the imperial army, with such class handicaps as a railway-clerk father. By dint of hard work and undemonstrated brilliance, Redl rises to high military and social rank and becomes deputy chief of the army's espionage service. Sexually, he undergoes a kind of moral regress. A disinclination to make love to women awakens him to his own homosexuality. As an ever more active queer...