Word: herzen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...
...sniping; Michurin, a lathe operator, has mastered the heavy machine gun and can riddle stationary or moving targets by day or night; Afinogenov, a bookkeeper, can toss a hand grenade 40 yards. Workmen of the Savin factory practice bayonet drills every day after hours. Bernadsky, a professor at the Herzen Institute, practices with rifle and hand grenade along with the rest of the staff. In the textile mills, Weaver Nikitina, Spinner Vasileyeva, Winder Zhdanova and Piecer Isayeva are busy teaching their fellow workers first...
...Frau Ehrlich, and plays it better. By shadings of voice, gesture, glance, she becomes the wife who, excluded from her famous husband's death chamber by the presence of his great colleagues and his physician, sits playing the simplest of German love songs: Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. When she can be alone with him at last, he is dead. And her closing of the door upon herself and his body is the picture's last great directorial touch...