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In the TLS, Clive James reviews a magisterial study of how Schoenberg, Fritz Lang, Stokowksi and other exiles sought a new voice in the New World:

Otto Preminger, hearing a group of his fellow émigrés speaking Hungarian, said, “Don’t you people know you’re in Hollywood? Speak German.”

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