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...daughter, Maria, in 1925. About a year later she got a second lead in a musical comedy, It's in the Air. She began to get starring roles in German pictures. Alternating them with stage work, she was a guest star in the Berliner Theatre when Josef von Sternberg saw her. After the show he went backstage-the squat, little man with a sharp face and Mephistophelean mustache. The strange career of Josef von Sternberg was just coming into its exotic bloom. Born Joe Stern in Vienna, Austria in 1894, he had risen from the cutting room, gambled...
Imperial pomp such as Austria has not known since the passing of hoary Emperor Franz Josef, reigned in Vienna for one night last week in his favorite Palace of Schönbrunn. For the first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist...
...determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background for the 61-year-old fiddler who, according...
...Boguslawski likes to toy with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey. He drinks hot tea, likes to accompany it with thick sandwiches of corned beef...
...solve the mystery of his birth until he had been whisked away to a castle, educated. Then he discovered that he was the son of Rudolf, the brilliant, impetuous heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and thus grandson of the old Emperor Franz Josef he had hated as a tyrant in his peasant days. But Rudo as an illegitimate prince befriending the commoners, studying art, hating the nobility, philosophizing over nature, marrying a peasant girl, founding an orphanage, is a dull figure compared with Rudo the jachook, worrying about the regular arrival of the allowance that prevented his murder...