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...author has in mind the power of human faith in the providence of God, and by exemplifying its force in the proper characters, throws into puny relief the petty human science of the learned professor. The novel is therefore of considerable interest as an example of the neo-religious tendency in certain modern French and German writers, affording certain relief from the monotony of the steady paganism of the contemporary novel. It is, at the same time, intrinsically fine. The author squeezes quite respectable and unhackneyed drama from the rather obvious situation in which he lays his story...
Elected eleven years ago by a two-thirds majority. Vienna's Socialist Burgomaster Karl Seitz was in jail last week. At the same time a new Burgomaster, for whom not one Viennese had voted, was inducted into office with considerable ceremony in the neo-Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first...
...Oswald Mosley's black-shirted British Fascists were still a very small legion last week and the neo-Communist hunger march to London had fizzled pitifully. But with Austria sworn to a corporative state, with democracy on trial for its life in France and Spain, with its future clouded even in Britain, Stanley Baldwin stepped to a microphone in London and made the sort of speech that five years ago would not have been news but is today. "Our freedom did not drop down like manna from heaven," cried the Conservative leader. "It has been fought for from...
Serious fighting lasted 48 hours. One of the hottest set-tos took place before the neo-Renaissance HÔtel de Ville. Here the mob, mostly youngsters, was led by 13 perspiring Municipal Councilors with their tricolor sashes wrapped round their stomachs. Communists led the crowds that battled police three days later around the Place de la République...
...merchandise be placed in slot machines on every corner, in case of emergency" only to discover that he is in the wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive comedies based on the real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down...