Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly 1000 listeners gathered in New Lecture Hall yesterday to hear Spender read selections from his works, including 'Ultima Ratio Regnum" and a long in complete poem, titled "Vienna." He was introduced to the audience by Theodore Spencer, Boylston professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who termed Spender "one of those rare Englishmen who is also a good European...
...Wilhelm went to live in a Paris suburb. One after another, his old friends dropped away. In 1935, he was sued together with a French actress for collecting money allegedly for the restoration of the "lost Ukrainian crown." Hastily he left Paris, went to Switzerland, thence back to Socialist Vienna...
...boarding with an elderly schoolteacher in the drabbened diplomatic district. He was now bald, with an impressive white mustache and a touch of TB. He managed to dress neatly, and some suspected that he was a black-marketeer. One evening last summer, he was seen dining in style at Vienna's gay, expensive black-market Restaurant Charly. He had just been given a job as manager of a Viennese chemical concern. Then he disappeared...
Last week, Vienna's police said that he had been arrested by Russian soldiers. Wilhelm Habsburg-Lothringen, would-be King of the Ukraine, was resting quietly in Wiener-Neustadt's Soviet internment camp. The Russians, it appeared, were taking no chances even with ghosts...
...book is replete with convenient flashbacks of the kind the cinema loves, and the story moves effortlessly from London to Vienna to California, affording many an opportunity for many a stock shot. Its sentiments are eminently correct for the movies, with one exception. When the hero first meets the heroine and her mother, he goes briefly for the mother-but that angle could easily be cut out of the script. Love finally conquers all as The Bomb falls on Hiroshima. Running time: 90 minutes...