Word: steffy
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...good friend Captain Macheath because the erring captain has won the heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna, who in Hungary was called "Steffi, the Wonder Child." Pert Miss Duna, whose elfin face looks not unlike Sylvia Sidney's, played in Noel Coward's Words & Music in London earlier this season, is now making...
...always said to my husband, when we saw those men on the streets of Paris . . ." Nor, perhaps, can one blame the old lady, for the complicated framework of "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" is such that she could hardly be expected to follow the intricate love problems of Steffi, a Viennese shopgirl, who is almost cast into the willing arms of the almost rich tenor butcher only to be rescued for her unemployed musician by the discovery that there was a mistake in the numbers of the lottery tickets, which makes the course of true love lead to a proper...