Poldi remains loyal to Strauss, and the marriage is a long one. But the closeness of Strauss and Carla Donner, during rehearsals of operettas, attracts comment, not least from Count Hohenfried, Donner's admirer. He's on his way, and he can now marry Poldi Vogelhuber, his sweetheart. Strauss is caught up in a student protest he and Carla Donner avoid arrest and escape to the Vienna Woods, where he is inspired to create the waltz "Tales from the Vienna Woods".Ĭarla asks Strauss for some music to sing at an aristocratic soiree, and this leads to the composer receiving a publishing contract. The audience is minimal, but when two opera singers, Carla Donner ( Miliza Korjus) and Fritz Schiller ( George Houston), visit whilst their carriage is being repaired, the music attracts a wider audience. He puts together a group of unemployed musicians who wangle a performance at Dommayer's cafe. The highly fictionalised story sees "Schani" dismissed from his job in a bank.
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