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...Lorelei...
Family: Of Milanese origin, the Brentano di Tremezzo banking and merchant family moved into Germany in the 18th century, where they established deep cultural ties. Famed 19th century Brentanos: Bettina. friend of Goethe; Poet Clemens (The Lorelei}; Philosopher Franz; Economist Lujo; democratic Revolutionary Lorenz. Otto von Brentano. the new Minister's father, was a lawyer and statesman of the Weimar Republic; brother Clemens is now German Ambassador to Italy; onetime fellow-traveling Novelist Bernard von Brentano is another brother...
Marlene sounds mellower than ever before. She is still a bored, poised and cynical siren, but compassionate and full of ripe wisdom. "In your voice we hear the voice of the Lorelei." says Jean Cocteau in the album notes, ''but the Lorelei was a danger to be feared. You are not." In the album an enthusiastic British audience claps, cheers and laughs along with the performer, suggesting that beyond the bored and enigmatic smile of the screen Marlene. there is a skilled and warm variety artist who can pout, frown, tease, worry, smile and flirt in a constant...
...JULY-Die Lorelei. In Middletown, Conn., asked why he took a plunge into the Connecticut River, William Hartman told police: "Mermaids called me. Gosh, they were beautiful...
...sung to the tune of the Lorelei...