Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture begins as three young matrons in station-wagon suburbia learn that one of their husbands has run off with a feared and envied local charmer. Leaving the runaway husband's identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor, he pulls off an ending that is adroit but fair, surprising but credible, and warm yet not sticky with sentiment...
Most biographers begin their books with a bow to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Brown, without whose patience and generosity this book would never . . . etc., etc. Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, who was brought up a cavalryman in the reign of Franz Joseph of Austria, includes a jab of the rowel: "I wish to express my admiration for the courage of those who thrust upon me their uninvited advice on a subject of which they had no knowledge, and which ... I avoided accepting...
Rudolph's father, Emperor Franz Joseph, had only two interests as Author Lonyay sees it: 1) to design new buttons for his army's uniforms; 2) to design new agreements he had no great intention of keeping ("I cannot get the All-highest gentleman out of the habit of telling lies," his comptroller complained...
Father Franz Joseph was more furious than grief-stricken when he heard the news. Years before, a tailor had tried to kill him, and ever since he had used the word "tailor" to describe anything that he considered utterly contemptible. So now he shrieked: "My son died like a tailor!" -and proceeded to suppress the story. Mary Vetsera was buried secretly. As for Rudolph: "His Imperial and Royal Highness [has] died suddenly of heart failure," said the Court communiqu...
Later, Franz Joseph admitted that Rudolph had committed suicide. But he continued to hush up all evidence of the circumstances. He put what he said were the documents relating to the case in a large leather bag, which was solemnly handed on, unopened, from one Prime Minister to the next, until 1917. When at last the bag was opened a bundle of old newspapers fell...