Word: rudolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich, enrolled in Max Reinhardt's school in Berlin. To get money she worked as an extra for UFA. Her first turn of fortune came when she met Rudolf Sieber, a blond, stocky assistant director. He picked her out of a mob scene and gave her a lorgnette. The lorgnette made what is known as a "halation"-a spot of light reflected upon the camera lens and magnified. Nowadays cameramen watch scenes for halation. When they find them they blur...
...less remarkable than her relationship to von Sternberg is her family life. She is still married to Rudolf Sieber. He followed her to the U. S., bringing little Maria, after Marlene's establishment at Paramount, helps her in many ways. He soothes her in emergencies, advises her on parts, costumes and household matters. They have occasionally been seen together publicly-Sieber with a feminine companion, Dietrich escorted by her current favorite. She seeks her husband's advice on business but leaves final decisions to her agent, Harry Eddington...
...more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that were not. The sirens Pescht meets on his philanderings contribute little to the modern dance. On the other hand, his homecoming is deeply moving, from the time he drags...
...farmer who kept a brewery on the side, Kurt Jooss was expected to go through a general schooling, return to the soil. He rebelled. At school he was moody, more interested in the piano and taking pictures. For a time he struggled with farming, but after one session with Rudolf von Laban he was suddenly determined to dance, studied for three years with the eccentric who inspired Mary Wigman and many another of the modernistic school...
...Sigurd Leeder, who assists Jooss as dance instructor, Ernst Uthoff, who dances and acts as the troupe's paymaster, Rudolf Pescht, last week's prodigal son, who began his career selling books. In Essen Kurt Jooss brooded for weeks over a danse macabre, worked up The Green Table which he took to the International Dance Congress in Paris in 1932 where he won the gold medal and 25,000 francs...