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Little Men Who Weren't There. None of the Budapest Quartet comes from Budapest. Only one of the four (first violinist Josef Roismann) has ever even visited the city. All are Russians. To the Quartet, this fact has become a continual embarrassment. Wherever they go, they are likely to be welcomed in fluent Magyar by effusive groups of Hungarians. The Quartet knows plenty of Hungarian music, but no Magyar...
...original Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe and the U.S. in the 1920s, was as 100% Hungarian as goulash. By 1927 its second fiddler left and a Russian took his place. By 1932 there was not a Hungarian left. Today the four are 43-year-old first violinist Josef Roismann from Odessa; 35-year-old second violinist Alexander Schneider from Vilna; 43-year-old violist Boris Kroyt from Odessa; 39-year-old cellist Mischa Schneider, brother of Alexander...
Archduke Franz Josef, natty, 38-year-old distant cousin of Otto, turned out to have been a "steerer" for Manhattan's swank Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Papers in a lawsuit (now settled) showed that the Archduke had his own rooms there at half price and earned a 5 to 10% commission on the rents paid by guests he brought in (one was Glandmaster Serge Voronoff) But the war boom in the hotel busines broke it all up. The Archduke got a job with a brokerage house, moved across the street to the Savoy-Plaza...
...German clergyman, whom the Russians call Josef Kaiser, read prayers in German every morning through the Moscow microphone...
...Married. Josef von Sternberg, 49, magniloquent discoverer and first director of Marlene Dietrich; and Jeanne Annette McBride, 21, his brunette ex-secretary; he for the second time; in Hollywood...