Word: mantschedda
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...
...somehow, while the German comedian, Eugene Bourg, incited a crowd of Berliners to chase them to their hotel. Later the same night Maria Orska quarreled with her sister, informed her that she could hardly carry on with so impolitic a business manager. Next morning the Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda was found swinging from the curtain cord of a window in her apartment. She had hanged herself...
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