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Since her daughter Sigrid's wedding, the event of the season, dignified Frau Hans Frank (her husband was the former governor of Poland) has been taking things easier, wining and dining only such close friends as Frau Wilhelm Frick and Frau Walther Funk...
...diary does better. Ciano says that Ribbentrop bet him a collection of antique arms against an Italian painting that Britain and France would not go to war if Germany invaded Poland. (Ribbentrop never paid up.) Ciano identifies Adolf Hitler's mistress during the summer of 1939 as one Sigrid von Lappus, and describes her as having "beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body...
...most ways a better picture than its carbon copy. United Artists knew a good thing when they saw it, and they took large chunks--still recognizable shots, and in some cases apparently the very same sets--of the French original as a backdrop for Boyer, Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, and Gene Lockbart...
...creation of Marian and Hanna Kister, the Roj (Beehive) Publishers was the biggest fiction publishing house in pre-Nazi Poland. Started after World War I with a cheap edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes a year. In Manhattan last week the Beehive Publishers (transliterated to Roy for the U.S. trade) were again as busy as bees. In between was a story of terror and struggle...
...Sigrid Undset, 61-year-old Nobel Prizewinner from Norway, declared that the thing about the U.S. that astonished her most was its women's clubs. "It would never occur to a European woman," said she, "to have lunch with a lot of other women, and not a male in sight. I must say I prefer mixed company...