Word: tellegen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tellegen as well as the Propaganda Minister of Germany is gimpy little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. His carryings-on with the actresses on whom he must pass before they may appear on the German stage or screen are a joke as well as a scandal in the upper circles of Naziland...
...Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...
...Tellegen was burned to ashes which, as a last theatrical gesture, he ordered sprinkled on the waves of the Pacific. Newspapers gave him gaudy obituaries,* told how at 15 he ran off with his father's mistress, how he specialized in love-making while he was successively a baker's assistant, a trapeze artist, a model for Auguste Rodin ("Eternal Springtime"), how he first arrived in the U. S. as Sarah Bernhardt's leading man. The final Hollywood picture was of a broken, hollow-eyed matinee idol who kept having his face lifted...
...Geraldine Farrar was "not interested" in the man she married in 1916, divorced in 1923. The Tellegen interlude, she claimed long ago, left only "a surface scar," "a single service stripe" in a vividly striped career. Besides, last week she was busy with other plans which would once again bring her name and her voice to millions of music-lovers. When the New York opera season begins in December, she will be back at the Metropolitan?not singing on the stage, but in a grandtier box on Saturday afternoons broadcasting descriptions of the operas which...
...obituaries were taken mostly from Tellegen's confessions, Women Have Been Kind. Tellegen's wives were: 1) Countess Jeanne de Brockere; 2) Geraldine Farrar; 3) Isabelle Craven Dilworth (screen name: Nina Romano); 4) Actress Eve Casanova...