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...Hitler Germany's greatest stars, "Lisl" Bergner fled the country in 1933, scored a series of brilliant U.S. and British stage and screen successes (Stolen Life, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Escape Me Never, Catherine the Great). But in the years just after the war, the Hollywood magic somehow gave out; Bergner appeared in a succession of stage flops, finally retired to London with her husband. Film Producer Paul Czinner. Last week's performance proved that her retirement had been premature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Comeback for Lisl | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Also receiving fellowships are Roy J. Glauber '46, and Ilse Lisl Novak, who got her M.A. from Radcliffe in 1944 and Ph.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steiner Receives Award of $3,000 | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

Slimmer than most sylphs is Austria's fragile Fraulein Lisl Goldarbeiter, recently crowned "Miss Universe" by Galveston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Rumanians are an earthy people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give us Magda Dimitrescu ?Magda is our weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Uglier grew the crowd. "We want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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