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...coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay on the goodness of man, they over step logical bounds...
...Captain! My Captain!) by Walter Damrosch. None ever caught on. And last week Cincinnati critics had their doubts after listening to Weinberger's symphony, given by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony. Weinberger plunged heavily into Deep River, splashing the spiritual not only in his "heroic scherzo" but also in a final rondo. The other movements were subtitled "6 Captain! My Captain!" and "The Hand on the Plough." Innocently Czech Weinberger worked in his King Charles's head-a fugue. But no polka...
...William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine; Dr. Simon Flexner & James T. Flexner; Viking...
...lawn of a country house, on a summer afternoon in 1939, a group of upper-class English people watch a village pageant and retire with its ambiguous messages fading on "the sky of the mind." By this time the afternoon is over, Mrs. Woolf has conjured up a heroic image of the whole splendor of English literature and history, from the age when rhododendrons crowded Piccadilly to the moment when, puzzled, uneasy, a little offended, the audience beholds itself torn to pieces among the flashing mirrors of the village players in their finale, called England: Ourselves...
...Sothern turns in a heroic performance. Separated from her accustomed role as heroine of M.G.M.'s Maisie series (TIME, Aug. 18), blonde, shapely Trouper Sothern almost saves the show. Her singing of The Last Time I Saw Paris is a model of how to put across that over-bleated dirge. And her version of Lady Be Good should please even a Prime Minister...