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...pastel waltzes of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus† were interrupted to report: "Hostile aircraft have turned westward." The operetta resumed with the aria, What Happiness to Forget What Cannot Be Changed...
Almost immediately he landed a comic refugee bit part in something called Cue for Passion. Knowing hardly a word of English, Karlweis learned his lines "like a parrot," got wonderful notices. He got them again as the Prince in the enormously successful revival of Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus). By then his English was fine. Chuckles he slyly: "As the French say, 'The pillow is the best teacher...
...jaunty, bow-tied, küss-die-hand Viennese who has charm off stage as well as on, and knows it, Karlweis was bred to old-world culture. His father, a friend of Johann Strauss's, was a well known playwright; his sister married the late great novelist Jakob Wassermann (The World's Illusion). World War I, in which Karlweis was cited four times for bravery, picked him up a law student, set him down an actor. By the mid-'20s he was playing in Vienna, Munich and Berlin opposite a flowering Elisabeth Bergner, a budding Marlene...
Bruckner loved food, beer (as many as 13 seidels of Pilsener at a sitting), and the waltzes of Johann Strauss. His favorite reading matter was the Bible and a life of Napoleon, whom he enormously respected. He had a dim-witted love of titles, once sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania offering it the dedication of his Fourth Symphony in return for a doctor's degree. When his offer was ignored, he fell into the hands of a swindler, whom he paid a considerable sum to wangle him a degree from the University of Cincinnati...
...incurable a collector as his own Peter Whiffle. But he usually gives everything away. The New-York Public Library has his boyhood hoard of cigaret pictures. Fastidious, unpredictable Van Vechten does not regret having abandoned musical criticism at 33 (because he thought he was getting too fond of Strauss waltzes to be ,really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming one-man show in Harlem will include pictures...