Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Artist's Model," Anton Walbrook is an artist "famous for his nudes." Equally famous as a lover in circa 1900 Vienna, he has much trouble leaving one woman, protecting the reputation of a second, and winning the hand of a third. His "love of convenience" with the latter, an unsophisticated girl, turns into the real thing, to the chagrin of his ex-pash. She schemes to break up the affair, and finding that be still won't come back to her, finally plugs him with a small roscoe, containing two cigarettes and one bullet. Things finally get straightened...
Schorr first appeared as Wotan when he was 23, in the provincial opera house in Graz, Austria. Son of a well-to-do Jewish cantor, he grew up in Vienna, where he studied law, earned his singing lessons by tutoring in Latin and Greek. His career really began to move in 1923, when he was stranded in the U.S. with a troupe of Wagnerian barnstormers. The managers failed to make good their $75,000 guarantee, but Schorr went on to the Metropolitan...
...this too simple concept, one man wrote an obituary last week. The man who carved the epitaph was a Leftist, who translated his hopes into the terms of international socialism. His right to bury the hope was as good as any Leftist's: Arthur Koestler, of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Haifa, Cairo, Moscow, Paris, Zurich, Seville, and now of London, is a veteran of many of Europe's military and ideological battlefields, concentration camps, hospitals, prisons, a journalist of repute, the author of one of the most brilliant and powerful novels of the present day (Darkness at Noon; TIME...
Married. British Cinemactress Diana Wynyard, 37 (Cavalcade, Reunion in Vienna); and Cinedirector Carol Reed, 36 (Night Train); in London...
South Carolina-born, 2201b. Robert Henry Best served in the U.S. Army in World War I, later studied journalism at Columbia University. In 1923 he won a $1,500 Pulitzer traveling scholarship and went to Europe, never to return. He served the United Press as Vienna string man (space-rate writer), then as Vienna staff correspondent for years. He became something of a Vienna figure-his wretched German, his broad-brimmed Stetson hat, his high-laced shoes, his corner seat in Vienna's Cafe Louvre, his troubles with women (for some time he lived with a supposedly sinister elderly...