Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this deeply stirred heart ... an ethos of continuity which predestines him emotionally to be a Communist and which politically has become a Communist creed. His Communism has positively patriotic color; as a matter of fact, it fulfills itself in patriotism . . . The day will come when all the German people will thank...
...long time. He got his start in 1926 when lie showed some pieces to Composer Kurt Weill, who recommended him for a job composing bits for a radio station. Nine years later Egk wrote an opera, The Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff reprimand in 1938 for "working along the lines of 'Kulturbolschewist' Kurt Weill." He had a brief wartime success with a ballet, Joan...
...considered one of the hopes of postwar German music. Says respected Critic H. H. Stuckenschmidt: "He belongs to the school of moderately modern music . . . not very modern, but played with most modern means." Egk himself is full of brisk ideas. Says he: "Opera must again become a real show, like French baroque opera, meant...
...Columbia) is a remake of the classic German melodrama, originally filmed by Fritz Lang in 1931, which helped bring Director Lang and Actor Peter Lorre to Hollywood. Though the old story of a psychopathic murderer of children has been shifted to a U.S. city in 1951 and altered in some other details-almost always for the worse-the new picture's close imitation of the German version's camera setups and sequence of shots suggests that Director Joseph Losey must have worn out a print of the original in the process of rehearsing himself...
...seas, pits some hapless Nazis against steel-jawed Dana Andrews, probably the most talkative down-Easter ever to ship out of Gloucester. Headed for the Newfoundland fishing banks, Andrews is still trying to sort out the spies among his crew when he comes across a disabled mother ship for German U-boats disguised as a Danish schooner...