Word: trill
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Alexander Moissi's Italian mother taught him her tongue without much opposition from his Albanian father, so he still speaks German with a faint trill in his r's and an insufficient guttural. In Trieste he went to the only Italian Real-gymnasium where the pupils did not have to learn Latin and Greek. His ancestors had all been solid people, merchants, physicians, even one general, but he decided to be an actor. After a while in stock, he convinced Max Reinhardt that he was a good actor, thus adding to Reinhardt's reputation for "discovering" talent...