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...Copenhagen, a theatre critic was challenged to a duel for making nasty cracks about an actor's lady friend. Because Denmark's Nazi conquerors have put a strict ban on firearms for Danes, the critic chose bows & arrows, ended the encounter at his second shot by pinking his antagonist...
...time the orchestra had finished Brahms's First Symphony, the audience was well away. Only once or twice did the youngsters wobble a little. Critics were inclined to put down a good deal of their oomph to Stokowski's credit. But as .they packed up their fiddles and horns to start their tour of South America, via Baltimore, Washington and Manhattan, even the severest critic had to admit that Leopold Antony Stokowski in two small weeks had whipped together an orchestra that could already claim sixth or seventh place* among the 17 top-flight symphonies...
Noyes thinks that annihilation is the best thing that could have happened to the debased human race. He has a high old time making his death ray catch in compromising positions all kinds of people who have irked Poet Noyes for years. There is moralizing Critic Sir Herbert Boskin & wife. On a sofa Lady Boskin "was in the arms of a dead man with a long, pale nose, and a red mustache, which gave a touch of macabre comedy to their attitude. . . ." Sir Herbert was in another room, "as dead," observes Poet Noyes gleefully, "as Napoleon. ... On a table beside...
Time in the Sun (Marie Seton). "As you watch, you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date of the movies." So wrote Critic Edmund Wilson in 1932 after a sneak preview of part of the 150,000 feet of film (feature length: around 8,000 ft.) which talkative, fuzzy-headed Director Sergei Michailovich Eisenstein, the Soviet Union's gift to cinema, had shot during a 14-month sojourn in Mexico...
...Hollywood hand Sol Lesser to patch together from their cinematic mountain after Director Eisenstein quarreled with Sinclair and went huffing back to Russia (TIME, May 2, 1932). But U. S. radicals, who accused Sinclair and Lesser of sabotage, and other admirers of Director Eisenstein persisted in the belief that Critic Wilson was right. Their laments made the movie Eisenstein had originally projected as Viva Mexico the most celebrated incomplete work of art since Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The news that it was to be cut up into travelogs and Latin American background shots was widely condemned as a typical...