Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna to Prague, to Vienna, through Switzerland, to France, to Geneva, at times together, at times apart, in & out of jail, sickness, food, shelter and luck, at length to find relative peace, if not security, in the tolerance of a Paris which "had assimilated all the migrations of the century." Steiner...
Franz Lehar, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow, still lives in Vienna. His friends say he cannot get out. He has paid out millions of marks to safeguard his wife, a "non-Aryan." But most of the other men who wrote Vienna's waltzes in better days are now in the U.S. and last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall a concert of Viennese music, from Mozart to Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, testified to their presence...
...train just pulling into Budapest. He went to the Actors' Academy (Hungarian national theatrical school), served with the Hungarian forces during World War I, made his professional stage debut in Budapest in 1916 as Liliom. Later he was a guest artist under Max Reinhardt in Berlin and Vienna, acted in German UFA films. Paramount's Adolf Zukor saw him on the Budapest stage, got Lukas to move to Hollywood. Since then he has appeared in The Night Watch, Strictly Dishonorable, Little Women, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Lady Vanishes. He first played on Broadway...
Heading the Harvard delegation at the conference will be Johannes V. Imhof '42 of Vienna, Germany and Edward T. Littlejohn 2G of Sidney, Australia. Wellesley, Radcliffe, and M. I. T. will also participate in the conference...
...patrol of soldiers, commanded by an Air Corps officer, appeared at the hilltop home of Premier Cvetkovitch, who had signed the Axis pact in Vienna scarcely 48 hours before. A guard stood before the door. "The Premier can not be disturbed," said the guard...