Word: vicki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera week for Cleveland, built up by the same two who, under Impresario Guy Golterman, directed Cleveland's first outdoor opera (for charity) last summer (TIME, Aug. 10): 26-year-old Laurence A. Higgins, and Dr. Ernst Lert, onetime Metropolitan Opera stage director (whose sister-in-law Vicki Baum was in Cleveland last week). This year they have organized a group called Laurence Productions Inc. "to present grand opera as they see it" in many cities. In Cleveland they rebuilt last year's stage, moved it closer to the grandstands. Still the largest outdoor stage ever built...
...other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant...
Riding in the woods of Long Island, Playwright Vicki Baum was thrown and injured when her horse bolted at sight of a squirrel...
...short feature story in the New York American, Vicki Baum, Vienna-born German novelist, playwright of Grand Hotel, told of the severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution...
...When Vicki Baum, who fortnight ago stated she would henceforth reside in the U. S. instead of Berlin, saw Grand Hotel, she had reason to be pleased with the adaptation of her play. Said she: "My admiration for Greta Garbo is unbounded. ... I see before me even now her tired, tragic face in the opening scenes and her extraordinary vivacity of expression and action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest...