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...Princess Lydia Pasto Hotchkiss Cucurbitaceo-the department store, you know. And the Countess Vitetti-the former Natalie Coe of Long Island and South Carolina. And the Countess Roberti-old Ogden H. Hammond's daughter. And Marchesa Vastezza-the former Bobbie Belchers of New York. And Baroness Carogna-the former Josephine Paddle-ford of Waukegan and Washington, D.C. And the Countess del Sgombro-who was Daphne Zugsmith of St. Paid. And of course, the Marchesa Sconciatura, who was the former Bridget O'Hare of Worcester, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Roman Social Season | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Ogden Hammond's daughter, Mary, was ordered interned as an enemy alien. Daughter of the wealthy ex-U.S. Ambassador to Spain, American-born Mary is married to Italian Count Guerino Roberti, onetime attache at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The Count and Countess will be taken to Hot Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Raps | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Died. Lyda Roberti, 28, blonde Polish-born actress; of acute nephritis; in Hollywood. Daughter of a clown, she won success by enthusiastic undulations and a mid-European accent, both on Broadway (You Said It, Roberta) and in films (Million Dollar Legs, The Kid From Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...spotlight Haley and Kelly in their inoffensive cutups. Taken to a nightclub by Lopez, Cecilia and Nellie see Joe, employed as a waiter, pretend that he is a performer, stumble into a bit of clowning which costs him his job. On a visit to a studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce her with the aid of an Indian love charm. He is prancing over the divan, shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Broadcast of 1936 (Paramount), a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 23, 1935 | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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