Word: jungfrau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter of a prominent neurologist and granddaughter of Vienna's chief of police, ran an experimental theater-along with a family of four children. Maria was the eldest, and in the nursery dramas of that stage-struck house, she insisted that she must play the Virgin Mary (Die Jungfrau Maria). She was a "sweet little blonde girl," the neighbors recall, "always happy and smiling." At six, she made her first public appearance, as the star of a drama entitled The Princess Searching for a Good Human Being, and she brought down the house...
Since advance showings of the movie have indicated that it will be a commercial success, the odds are that it will manage to get many theater bookings even without a Production Code seal and in spite of church objections. A German-language version called Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (The Virgin on the Roof), which was shot simultaneously in Hollywood, will be shown in Germany soon...
...Jungfrau auf dem Dach* will cost only about 15% more to film than the English picture alone, and the extra shooting time will come to only about ten days...
...Everything Was Divine." In Switzerland, Americans climbed the Jungfrau (by railroad), sailed on Lake Geneva, took pictures of each other quaffing beer from giant steins. In Italy, as one enthusiastic female put it, "everything was divine." Prices were low, the food & drink excellent, and waiters now know what "on the rocks" means. Tourists explored catacombs, craned their necks at the Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, where a sign cautions: "Visitors are forbidden to lie on the floor." In Venice, they fed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square, drifted down the Grand Canal in gondolas, and pointed...
...countless minor wonders of the world. Absolute musts were designated by -**, e.g., the Louvre, Yellowstone Park, Windsor Castle, St. Peter's, the Pyramids, the Colosseum and the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in Boston. Lesser musts rated *, e.g., the Arc de Triomphe, the Paris Ritz, the WaldorfAstoria, the Jungfrau, Harvard and Yale (but not Princeton), Broadway, and the Brooklyn Post Office. Many a hotel offered handsome bribes for recommendation, but Baedeker remained the raspberry-red incorruptible...