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...actors," Hodges writes, "Lewin consistently argued that, despite their ethnicity, they did not fit his conception of what Chinese people looked like." What were they supposed to look like? Warner Oland? No, not a Dane like Oland - Austrians! Paul Muni played Wang, Luise Rainer was O-lan and Tilly Losch got the role of Lotus. Wong, Chan, speculates, was "Too beautiful for one part and too old for the other." (Anna May's younger sister Mary Liu Heung Wong did get the small role of the Little Bride. She hanged herself in the family garage...
...weeks after Claudia Losch of West Germany won a 1984 Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft. 2 1/4 in., Natalia Lisovskaya took that event at the Soviet bloc's boycott-inspired Friendship Games with a throw almost 5 ft. longer. Barred by politics in 1984 from a chance at world sport's most enduring honor, Lisovskaya began training at Moscow's Brothers Znamensky Sports School for Seoul...
Died. Tilly Losch, seventyish, prima ballerina of the 1920s and '30s, whose supple, fluid movements enchanted audiences of the Vienna State Ballet until she began a second career that included musicals with the Astaires and roles in such movies as The Good Earth and The Garden of Allah; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...five men retained were Dr. A.M. Jazowski D.M.D. '29, assistant professor of Prosthetic Dentistry; Dr. Paul K. Losch, associate professor of Pediatric Dentistry; Maloney; Dr.G. Earl Thompson D.M.D. '29, associate Clinical Professor of Dentistry; and Weisberger. During 1945-46, these few kept up the clinical work so patients could continue their treatment and, more important, so that the School wouldn't close completely. Contact with future patients was maintained for the time when the new School would open. Meanwhile the building was being renovated, and the six-year plan was established...
Divorced. By the Countess of Carnarvon, 45, the former Tilly Losch, onetime Viennese premiere ballerina who changed her style, rose to fame in the '30s as an interpretative dancer: the Earl of Carnarvon, 58, on charges of adultery which he declined to contest (two years ago he failed to get a divorce on the grounds that Tilly had sailed off to the U.S. in 1940, leaving him and the blitz behind); after eight years of marriage, no children; in England...