Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard plays a successful violinist who, returning to his home in Sweden from an American concert tour, must find a new accompanist because his old one is about to retire. Who should turn up to fill the post but his little daughter's piano teacher, played by Miss Bergman. Several arpeggios and one bottle of champagne later, the two have fallen deeply in love; a fortunate thing for the audience, but most unfortunate for Howard's wife and two children and Miss Bergman's promising career as a pianist...
...flash and sparkle) are only a few of the things which make Mr. Howard's eyes flash and sparkle. As all good things must, this intermezzo comes to an end and the couple, realizing that they can never be happy with Howard's family waiting for him back in Sweden, resume their separate careers...
...rumor that he never gets up before noon. He denies this strenuously and insists that he rises at 9 a.m. every morning. He admits, however, that he is haunted by the tragedy of Descartes, who contracted a fatal "early morning virus" while in the service of the Queen of Sweden. Berlin, therefore, stays inside with his telephone and his breakfast until the sun is safely...
...question of cinema superiority, another country has been heard from. The new film at the Beacon Hill is from Sweden, and if it can be taken as typical of the quality of Swedish films, let us have many more...
Representatives of ten western European nations signed the charter for a Council of Europe yesterday in London. Agreeing to the charter, which provides for a joint cabinet and parliament, were Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Ireland. London sources reported that Winston Churchill may become the British delegate...