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...beautiful peasant girl from the mountains who looked strapping but whose blood was dangerously thin. Dr. Gion had to advise her not to have her baby, but he sympathized with her when she would not consider an abortion, even though she knew the birth would kill her. Young Toni was a ragamuffin who made a few pennies for his grandmother by peddling sights of the stars through his telescope. His great enemy was a crazy old man who thought Toni was threatening to bombard the town...
...prologue has ended; a century has passed. It is 1930 in Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
...evening at the piano the triumphant waltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fall for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...
...prologue has ended; a century has passed. It is 1930 in Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
...evening at the piano the triumphant weltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fail for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...