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Uncle Vanya. One sure way of cementing a friendship is to discover that you and your acquaintance are both devoted readers of the works of the late Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, that you have, both covered the 350-odd short stories, the six full-length plays. Of the six, four have been produced in Manhattan since autumn: The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and, last week, Uncle Vanya. Presented with artistic piety by Producer Jed Harris, Uncle Vanya was ecstatically received by confirmed Chekhovians. In addition, cinemagoers had the opportunity of beholding birdlike Cinemactress Lillian Gish...
...show are many wood-panels of nymphs and Nationalistic God-heads. Moses appears in two forms: a bust and a full-length bronze of seething, impassioned aspect. In an era when it is fashionable to divorce art from religion and other such influences, Ivan Mestrovio, bred close to Croatian soil, retains much of the peasants' religious awe; infuses his sculpture with that spirit...
...short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories (so called for convenience); 44 poems, and an essay by Critic Yvor Winters, The Extension and Reintegration of the Human Spirit through the Poetry, Mainly French and American, Since Poe and Baudelaire...
...From the semiprivate Red Room, where they had hung since Roosevelt's time to the spacious East Room, were moved the full-length White House portraits of George and Martha Washington. . . . Upstairs, in an alcove off his study, Herbert Hoover has hung a growing collection of portraits of himself. Mostly by amateurs, mostly crude and amusing, all gifts, they are what President Hoover calls his "one-man show...
Strauss: the Waltz King (German). A formless, well-acted, full-length silent biographical film tells how Johann Strauss became a composer in spite of his father's opposition. It is hard to believe that young Strauss's life was as fantastic as this but the important facts are authentic and the scenarist's guesses about the detail are as,; good as anyone's. You lose interest in Strauss but do not give him up for good until he is playing his own tunes at the wedding of his sweetheart to another fellow. Silliest sequence: Strauss jilting the pastry cook...