Word: hoffmann
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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...
...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...
...opening night of the Technicolored The Tales of Hoffmann in London's Carlton Theater, Dancing Star Robert Help-mann was presented to 83-year-old Queen Mary, who said graciously, "I think the film is very beautiful, and I particularly liked your voice." Replied Helpmann with a bow, "I wish it were my own," humbly explained to Her Majesty that the singing voices had been dubbed...