Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carrolls (by Martin Vale; produced by Robert Reud & Paul Czinner). For eight years-ever since Escape Me Never-versatile, Vienna-born Elisabeth Bergner has been searching for a new play to appear in on Broadway. The Two Mrs. Carrolls suggests that the search had become pretty desperate. From 8:40 to 10 it is just dull; from 10 o'clock on it is pretty fair melodrama...
...hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its willowy waltzes with a hand dipped in authentic Viennese schmalz, was the oldest Merry Widower of them all, bald, paunchy Robert Stolz, who raised a baton on the first Vienna production...
Died. Dr. Karl Landsteiner, 75, world-famed discoverer of the four human blood types, 1930 Nobel Prize winner; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Shy, grey-mustached Landsteiner got his M.D. in his native Vienna in 1891, was stricken in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute in which he worked for 20 years...
...past 20 years three hard-working men have written 90% of all the musical comedy orchestrations that have hit Broad way. They are Kansas City-born Robert Russell Bennett, Vienna-born Hans Spialek, New Jersey-born Don Walker. To these three has recently been added Oklahoma-born Ted Royal, who specializes in hot jazz arrangements. These four do most of their work in the offices of one of Tin Pan Al ley's biggest song publishers, Chappell & Co. Their average job of musicomedy tailoring takes about two weeks...
Fritz Kreisler, 68, became a U.S. citizen. The Vienna-born violinist had described himself to Immigration authorities as a French citizen; after the Nazi coup in Austria he had gone to France, won honorary citizenship there...