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...llona Massey (Hungarian), Ingrid Bergman (Swedish), Michele Morgan (French), and Directors Rene Clair and Jean Renoir, both French. Miss Massey, given $125 out of her weekly $2,500 pay check, thought she could get along, made no bones about admitting she once lived on $6 a month as a Budapest seamstress...
Last week, according to a report on the Budapest radio, the Prince had moved, was ensconced in the royal residence in Belgrade. It appeared that the Axis had found just whom it wanted to head a Serbian puppet State...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...
...Budapest String Quartet, just before it left Victor to sign up with Columbia, recorded the Mozart "Hunting" Quartet, now being released. This is one of those six wonderful quartets dedicated to Haydn, which prompted the older master to say to Leopold Mozart that "Before God and as I am honest man, your son is the greatest composer I have ever known, personally or by name." And Haydn was right. The Budapest Quartet plays this music with impeccable balance and finish. . . . Another accomplished artist, Robert Casadesus, plays Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find...
With Correspondent Brewer as he arrived in Budapest was CBS Radio Correspondent Cecil Brown-thrice arrested on suspicion of spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...