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...correspondent in battledress. Besides being a war correspondent, the guest conductor was a Negro, born in British Guiana. The 2,000 Berliners and the 500 Allied soldiers in the audience found it quite an experience. They applauded warmly when the conductor led the orchestra through Weber's familiar Oberon and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. They broke into cheers, and called him back five times, when he gave them Berlin's first hearing of fellow-Negro William Grant Still's boisterous, bluesick Afro-American Symphony...
Married. Merle Oberon. 34, nacreous, slant-eyed cinemactress ; and Lucien Keith Ballard, 37, Hollywood cameraman; both for the second time; by double, proxy in Juarez, Mexico...
...care for Chopin, there is Merle Oberon, although as the female lead she does not quite rise to the occasion, and leaves you feeling somehow that perhaps Botte Davis would have been a happier choice in the casting. She is still as cold and beautiful as ever, but her woodiness hampers her attempt to suggest the real magnetism of George Sand...
...Merle Oberon, 33, almond-eyed, Tasmanian-born cinemactress, announced that she planned to divorce Sir Alexander Korda, 51, slim, Hungarian-born British cinema producer, because they had failed "to work out separate lives and careers." Lady Korda, who became a star in her husband's best movie, The Private Life of Henry VIII, said that during five years of marriage they had seen each other infrequently, added: "I feel . . . so awful. . . Alex and I have been friends for such a long time. I hope everything will be all right with us as friends." Sir Alexander arrived in Manhattan from...
...heroine (Merle Oberon), arriving in New Orleans after harrowing exposure in the lifeboat of a torpedoed ship, starts the picture quavering with a nervous breakdown, and soon involves herself in circumstances calculated to pass it on to her audience. She moves upstate, for a rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting...