Word: losch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...picture is even rich enough in big name actors to be able to shoot them full of holes (or otherwise dispose of them) with carefree recklessness. In addition to the hard-riding, hard-loving stars, such well-known players as Herbert Marshall, Walter Huston, Otto Kruger, Harry Carey, Tilly Losch, Charles Bickford and Sidney Blackmer appear briefly in minor roles-and are seen no more...
...Tilly Losch, febrific terpsichorean contortionist, the wife (on inactive status) of the Earl of Carnarvon, discussed her lives for a Manhattan society columnist. "My role of ballerina comes first. Second is my work as a choreographer. My acting comes third, my painting fourth. I rate my role as Lady Carnarvon fifth in importance simply because I can't think of anything interesting to put after painting...
...Tilly Losch was still the Earl of Carnarvon's wife despite his efforts to the contrary. A London judge threw out the Earl's divorce suit, finding it no desertion that the prewar dancing star went to the U.S. from Britain in blitz-busy...
Marlene Dietrich, still trouping for the troops, had her picture taken with her mother, Frau Josephine von Losch, at Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome; Dietrich's taste for tailored togs appeared to be hereditary...