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Version: 2020-11-28
For Christine Marie
A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite
Elizabeth Fishel
Mirrors from Lohr were so elaborately worked that they were accorded the reputation of always speaking the truth and became a favourite gift at European crown and aristocratic courts. Uniquely, the mirrors also talked, in aphorisms like one that reads in the upper corner of a frame: Elle brille à la lumière (She is such a beauty).
Karlheinz Bartels, Schneewittchen: zur Fabulologie des Spessarts (Lohr am Main, 2012)
I don’t remember who started the rumor that Mars was scheduled to collide with the Earth that summer of 1938 … the next summer, not Mars, but a little man in Berlin changed the course of human history.
Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich by her Daughter (New York, 1993)
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Epigraphs
6 Contents
7 Prologue
8 The Devil is a Woman
9 Someday I’ll Find You
10 The Scarlet Empress
11 I Like America
12 The Garden of Allah
13 Sigh No More
14 Stage Fright
15 This Time Tomorrow
16 The Lady is Willing
17 Bonne Nuit, Merci
18 The Little Napoleon
19 The Party’s Going with a Swing
20 The Woman One Longs For
21 Farewell Song
22 Manpower
23 Dream Girl
24 Song of Songs
25 I’m Old Fashioned
26 Follow the Boys
27 Poor Lady in the Throes of Love
28 A Modern Dubarry
29 There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner
30 Desire
31 You’re the Top
32 I Loved a Soldier
33 World Weary
34 A Foreign Affair
35 The Stately Homes of England
36 The Ship of Lost Souls
37 I Wonder What Happened to Him?
38 The Spoilers
39 Down with the Whole Damn Lot
40 I Kiss your Hand, Madam
41 Love a Little
42 Angel
43 Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans
44 I Am a Camera
45 Cowardy Custard
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