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Looking fresh and relaxed after a two-month vacation in Europe, Author Thomas Mann and his wife Katja arrived at New York's Idlewild airport on their way home to Santa Monica and back to work on another book. This one, said Mann, will be the story of an artistic criminal and entitled The Confessions of Felix Krull...
...Hollywood devoted little Katja Mann, wife of Thomas Mann, told of shielding the nervous novelist from Nazis while they were flying the English Channel last spring: "He came back and wanted my seat by the window, but I made him stay up in front. He is very naive and seldom knows what is going on, so I didn't tell him until we reached London that there were German airplanes flying all around us. If they had seen him, he surely would have been recognized and arrested. The Germans flew past us and close beside us, looking me over...
...brilliance, and entertainment values are concerned, the book of "Katja", now at the Shubert, might as well have been written by Brooks Brothers, which it was not, as by the usually adept Frederick Lonsdale, which it was. This is no musical comedy equal of "Spring Cleaning." "The Last of Mrs. Cheney,"--or even of "On Approval." Nor is it, taken by and large--which is-the only way to take these Viennese concoctions--a particularly good-show. It has its moments but they are pitifully short and unbelievably sparse...
...course "Katja" has great odds to face. It is advertised as being a visual and auricular knock out in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and points both east and west. Its producers announce it to Boston as the continental equivalent of what is known in contemporary parlance as a wow. And now "Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare...
Americana, lolanthe, Katja, Countess Maritza, Scandals, Queen High, Criss Cross...