Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resigned as secretary of the company to embrace a diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends...
...President Hoover accepted the resignation, long-since proffered, of Ogden H. Hammond, President of Hoboken Terminal Co., Ambassador to Spain. Urged by influential Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as the successor: Irwin Boyle Laughlin of Pittsburgh, career diplomat (Athens. Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London), elder brother of Pittsburgh's George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin, steel...
Alexander Pushkin once wrote a story which concerned an old countess and her granddaughter, three cards and the young girl's lover. The old countess was called Pique-Dame (Queen of Spades) because years before as Belle of St. Petersburg she had attended masquerades in such a costume and because-this was only whispered about the court-she knew three cards by which a gambler could infallibly make his fortune. The soldier, Heran, loved Lisa, the granddaughter, but he had no money. The countess's secret preyed upon him and he hid himself one night in her room...
...sombre, curving melodies were there, cleverly orchestrated. The performance as a whole was creditable and contralto Anna Meitschik was the Countess. She, a native of St. Petersburg, made her reputation in Europe with this role, sang it in Manhattan 19 years ago at the U. S. premiére given at the Metropolitan Opera. Then her voice was so big and deep that she could even sing baritone airs, had done so once in Russia, as pinch-hitter for the hero in Rubinstein's Demon. Last week her countess was again a fearsome, palsied old hag in shawls...
...intrigue between the courts of Louis XV and mad Tsar Paul invested it with such architecture and haberdashery as even opulent Hollywood has rarely conceived. Liane Haid plays the buxom, duelling girl friend of Pompadour who is sent, dressed as a man, to learn the state secrets of St. Petersburg. Interest focusses on Fritz Kortner's interpretation of the Tsar, for it is the role with which Emil Jannings scored in The Patriot. The malevolence of Kortner's Tsar is never mitigated by the lunatic innocence which Jannings managed to suggest. Both are vivid; you must decide...