Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athens, at a charity benefit showing of the movie Tales of Hoffmann, King Paul, accompanied by Queen Frederika, hobbled to his seat on crutches. Nursing a sprained knee, which he had twisted recently on his yacht, the King insisted on keeping the theater date...
Bobst got his start as a $3-a-week pill pusher in Philadelphia, studied pharmacy at night, and got his license at 20. After managing a number of drugstores in the city, he landed a job as Philadelphia representative for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a big pharmaceutical house. Bobst called on all the doctors in the area, sold so many drugs that when Hoffmann-La Roche was going under in the 1920 depression, he was made general manager. He promoted new products, cut overhead, soon had the company in the black. He was made president, boosted...
...York City Opera atoned for its delay with a brilliant production. With fine dramatic performances by Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway and Tenor Robert (Tales of Hoffmann) Rounseville, The Dybbuk was well worth the 18-year wait...
Arriving at the Paris Opéra for the French premiere of Tales of Hoffmann, French Ballerina Ludmilla Tcherina, one of the film's starring dancers, struck some new fashion notes: a diamond bauble pasted on her forehead, a small blue feather dove on each of her bared shoulders...
...work was not in the show) spent $200 worth of stickers, only to be disappointed when she learned the artists' names. "Well, I certainly got some stinkers!" she muttered. "Who ever heard of them?" Among other buyers were Fleur Cowles of Look magazine, who got abstractions by Hans Hoffmann and George L. K. Morris, Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor, who got a landscape, and the University of Georgia museum, which picked up three paintings and two sculptures...