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...1920s, was as 100% Hungarian as goulash. By 1927 its second fiddler left and a Russian took his place. By 1932 there was not a Hungarian left. Today the four are 43-year-old first violinist Josef Roismann from Odessa; 35-year-old second violinist Alexander Schneider from Vilna; 43-year-old violist Boris Kroyt from Odessa; 39-year-old cellist Mischa Schneider, brother of Alexander...
...occasionally for tea (see cut). All disputes about interpretation are put to a majority vote. On their long Pullman hops they are incessant poker and bridge players, winning and losing substantial sums among themselves. Their drinking habits, not nearly as blended as their tone, are: Roismann, tomato juice; Alexander Schneider, Burgundy; Kroyt, vodka; Mischa Schneider, milk...
...four, Roismann and Kroyt, are married; three have homes in Washington. The fourth, Alexander Schneider, keeps a bachelor apartment on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place. He cooks, makes pottery and prefers blondes...
...reconnaissance photographs and even motion pictures to show the devastation being inflicted on German plants and communications. One point which impressed the Russians strongly: Germany's relative artillery weakness, exploited brilliantly by Soviet generals in recent battles, was caused mainly by heavy Allied raids on the giant Krupp, Schneider and Skoda gun factories...
...lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia and conventionality. He sacrificed health and, in the long run, life. He did not live to see his patient, advanced intelligence vindicated above the English Channel. Not even when his planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend him its ear. It was an "eccentric" individualist, Lady Houston, who finally...