Who met who? Test your knowledge in this week’s Spectrum puzzle. This time: When all of Paris was in Charleston fever.
He even once acted as a dancer, but without intention, and was given a large piece of money by a strange lady. From 1922 to 1927, the Austrian born in Brno lived in Paris and learned to dance from a world star. He was attracted to American and English culture when he was over 50 and already a famous representative of his profession in his homeland. In Paris he was supposed to carry out an extensive work assignment. When a colleague once visited him in his attic apartment, she found him sitting in bed in torn pajamas.
His young dance teacher, who attested to his exceptional talent for Charleston, had come from the USA from a poor background and had been married off by her mother when he was 13 years old. However, this marriage only lasted a few weeks. A German poet discovered her in New York and arranged for her to work in Europe. She immediately won over the Berlin and Paris revue audiences, and the clubs were all over her. She later found her third husband and her second home in France, she became a French citizen through marriage and worked for the Resistance and the secret service during the Second World War, rising to the position of “propaganda officer” in the French Air Force.
Years earlier, she had complained to her dance student, who came and went privately at her parties, about what she felt were the architects’ failed plans to remodel one of her houses. He replied, “Don’t you know that I can make the best design in the world for you?” She hadn’t known, and he got to work. He conceived a magnificent cube, with black and white striped marble bands on the outside and a swimming pool and sophisticated lighting effects on the inside. The house was intended to be a representative stage for the eccentric dancer, singer and actress and to give her a beautiful setting – unfortunately it was never built.
Who met who? The colleague? The German poet?
Who met who?
The “Spectrum” puzzle – also called “Hit” – appears every week. Here we tell you about historical encounters between well-known personalities, inventions or strange gatherings. Alone: names are not mentioned. Test your knowledge and solve the puzzle! All previous “Spectrum” puzzles can be found here.
