Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unreeled, Mayerling to Sarajevo retells, sometimes haltingly but always compassionately, the heckled romance of Franz Ferdinand (John Lodge), heir to Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Sophie Chotek (Edwige Feuillere), his morganatic Czech wife. Its numerous revelations of Austrian pre-war court life, quite familiar now to fans long exposed to the Viennese nobility, seem new only in a simpler, more personalized view of Franz Josef (Jean Worms), the scheming Prince Montenuovo (Aime Clariond) and other appendages of the state and social hierarchy. But historically, the film-a logical sequel to 1937's teary, highly successful Mayerling...
After ten months fighting with the Finish army and the French Foreign Legion and serving the Czech, Norwegian, and French civil governments, this year may well seem a bit tame for John Crane-Baker...
...struggle, but as an American citizen he encountered difficulties which made it impossible for him to enlist. Balked in this first attempt to serve, he spent five months in Paris first working under Andre Morize, professor of Romance Languages, in the Propaganda Bureau, and then working for the Czech National Committee...
...them could Germany conquer the British. And by last week the last great democracy of Europe was truly an "island fortress" ringed by air and naval power, manned by 1,500,000 British soldiers, two Canadian divisions, several battalions of Australians and New Zealanders, 30,000 Polish, French and Czech troops. Last week with the calling of 34-year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were registered for Army service. Behind all these were 1,400 battalions of Local Defense Volunteers, whose name was last week changed to the Home Guard (thus robbing the L. D. V. of their slogan...
Dvorak: Quartet No. 6 in F Major (Budapest Quartet; Victor: 6 sides). One of the first composers to try to write typically U. S. music was Czech Anton Dvorak who lived in the U. S. from 1892 to 1895. Today Composer Dvorak's lively "American Quartet," though engagingly tuneful, sounds more like a Czech Dumka than a U. S. foxtrot. The Budapesters give it a finely tooled performance...