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CHINA'S MILLIONS - Anna Louise Strong-Knight ($2.50). Revised edition of a graphic, eye-witness account of Chinese Revolution of 1927, carrying the record to 1935, incorporating new matena on the Chinese Soviets, the Japanese advance into Manchuria, developments of the Kuomintang...
...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...
...determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
...Anna Karenina" at the University this week is certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more...
...admirers of Tolstoi, then, "Anna Karenina" is sadly disappointing. Admires of Garbo will feel differently. She is definitely Garbo throughout, not Anna, but nevertheless gives a convincing performance. (This is a trick common among Hollywood stars who are personalities, not necessarily actresses.) The picture as a whole, in fact, is not too unsatisfactory when considered merely as a picture, not as the translation of a novel; it is good Hollywood romance...