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Miss Blueye and Rocchino were arrested Aug. 11 at Sopren, Hungary, when border guards found Frank Schober, an East German concealed under a bunk in the car trailer the pair were driving. They admitted Schrober's mother offered them $2500 if they could smuggle Schrober into the West...
...course, the plot is just as inconsequential as ever, and as usual it doesn't matter. You don't go to be gripped by the stirring pathos of the story-book romance of Franz Schubert and Mitzi Kranz, to weep for unrewardtd genius when the handsome, worthless Baron Schober steals the girl away and ruins Franz's inspiration so he can't finish the Unfinished Symphony. Rather you go to forget this cold cruel world and settle back for three delightful acts of life to the strains of Schubert. Hence you overlook a lot of unconvincing acting, and laugh...
...jeweler. Shubert, a shy and awkward lover, finds a vent for his love in his songs to the fair Mitzi, but their new-found romance is nipped in the bud by a hapless misunderstanding. Mitzi then showers all of her warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without a doubt to Mitzi's father, old man Krantz, who makes an art of slapstick comedy. His performance as a drunk and a hard-boiled father saves...
Died. Dr. Johann Schober, 57. twice Chancellor of Austria (1921-22, 1929-30); of heart disease; in Gutenbrunn, Austria. Beginning as a clerk in the police department Dr. Schober rose to the high office of head of the Austrian Federal police which position he retained until his death. For some years during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef he safe-guarded the security of visiting monarchs, met Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately...
...Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, in Los Angeles whither he had been taken from a New Mexico sanatorium with pleurisy of both lungs; Adolph S. Ochs, 74, publisher of the New York Times, in Manhattan, following removal of a kidney; Dr. Johann Schober, 57, onetime chancellor of Austria, in Vienna, of a critical heart attack; Mayor Anton J. Cermak, 59, of Chicago, reputedly from convention fatigue and overeating (pickled pigs' feet...