Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-18

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watched Maurice Chevalier con-
vulse the Begun Aga Khan and
Sophia Loren in their box at
the opera house as he sang to
them even while the show was
on. Have to admit I wasn't
near enough to hear. Not even
the great Tebaldi, who received
a great ovation as Tosca, ditto
EugeniO Fernando as Mario,
could keep the photographers
from flashing their bulbs at
the glamorous party in their
box. Same thing happened
when Sophia stepped out Of the
Hofburg palace for some air.
An honor guard was lined up
for the expected visit of the
President of Austria. When the
photographers saw Sophia, they
deserted the president for the
movie star!
- Isabel Jeans, who played
Chevalier'S old flame in "Gigi,"
has gone respectable and is
his mother in olympia" The
beautiful English actress yearns
to return to Hollywood: THE
Ideal life for me would be nine
months in Hollywood and three
months-in the summer, Of
courSe-in England"
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Olympia" director Mike
CurtiZ is in Vienna for the first
time in 80 years. II started my
career here as young man of
u.s." Mike recalled. Directing
four or five very big pictures.
In 1927, Paramount bought my
"Sodom and Gomorrah" film
and never released it because
De Mile had just made his first
Ten Commandments But
Harry Warner saw the picture
and signed me to do 'Noah's
Ark in 1929"
I asked Curtiz, who was born
in nearby Budapest, if Vienna
has changed very much. Not
the buildings - although so
much was bombed during the
war 80 per cent of Vienna to
be exact). but the people have
changed. Like all Europe. they
copy everything American, not
because they envy us, our mon
ey, they envy our freedom
Vienna was a peaceful place
when l lived here before. 1t was
quiet with no rushing. Today il
does not have the 'gemutlich-
keit' of the past"
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Curtiz declined an invitation
to step over the border into
Hungary. MY old picture,
Robin Hood is a big success
in Budapest. They struggled
in a print and made copies,
without paying anyone. They
did the same with Shane and
Roman Holiday They adj
vertised I would appear with
Robin Hood but I wouldn't
go under present conditions"
Most popular Americans in
Vienna are ElviS Presley and
Louis "SatchmO" Armstrong
The eeen-agerS are mad about
jazz and you haven't lived I'M
til you have seen and heard 9
Strauss waltz jazzed into rock
m roll.
Movies, American brand
have moss growing on them in
Vienna. I hear they've beer
having some sneak previewS oil
Birth of a Nation" and the
Marx Brothers "a Night at the
Opera" Titles undergo strange
changes. The Jimmy Stewart.
Kim KOvak starrer, Bell, Book
and Candle" has been retitlec
in German, my Bride Is Over.
sexed."!!
Apology
In Miss Graham's column
release Wednesday, July 8, the
following item was carried:
"A cocktail with Linda
Christian at the Savoy
Linda was in a rage because
a big bottle of Bols gin brought
over by pop had diminished tc
an inch of liquid. She COM
planned to the manager that
all her liquor had been steadily
diminishing and replaced with
four-f1fths water. Nothing
like this has ever happened al
the Savoy" said the amazed
manager.
The general manager of thu
Savoy Hotel w. A. Hoflin, ha.
released the following extrac
from a letter to the Savoy man,
agement dated July 20 writer
from The Hague by Lindt
Christians father, G. j. tWelter
I'm connection with the ques
ton Of the dilution of the con,
tents of the bottle of Dutch gin
about which my daughter Mis
Linda Christian complained
to you some days ago. 1 an
afraid that I owe you my sin
cere apology for having wrongl!
accused some members of you
staff of having tempered will
the bottle concerned.
After having mentioned thi
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