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...matter what the issue, settlement by war is not worth the price. "All Quiet on the Western Front", is more than good peace propaganda, it is very good screen drama. It is stronger and more effective than recent anti-war-films because it is not merely a collection of stark scenes of murder and brutality, it is personalized, it brings the thing home and emphasizes the nearness of international slaughter to all of us, makes us feel that was is an imminent possibility for everybody and makes us strongly determined to avoid it in any way. At a time when...
...longtime fashion was to label most of Sibelius' music gloomy and mystical, a dark artistic reflection of Finland with its stark pine trees and the mists rising over its many black lakes. Sibelius' songs and piano music are relatively unimportant. In his first two symphonies his speech was chiefly of Finland but thereafter he seemed more determined to make absolute music which would speak for itself...
...Abbey's repertoire. On the light side, Lennox Robinson's Drama at Inish, seen in Manhattan last year as Is Life Worth Living?, tells the story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico votes against the Government and precipitates a national election...
...daughter as a nucleus, they started an ultra-progressive school on an isolated woodland in Hampshire 60 mi. from London. The school, now run entirely by Dora Russell, has about 22 pupils, aged 2 to 18. The youngsters study when and what they please. Weather permitting, they romp stark naked. They may say anything they like, get honest answers to any question. They are never coerced, never punished...
...into a movie of truly gigantic proportions, a profoundly stirring and stimulating drama of that complex and fascinating thing which is the very soul of man. Love, power, lust, all the many facets of human emotion are here portrayed with an insight and an almost Biblical beauty. This is stark, feeling drama consummately acted and constructed by the pen of man who speaks from the abyssmal depths of soul-stirring experience. As Jew Suss, Conrad Veidt outdoes himself in a burst of histrionic magnificence rarely the fortune of the screen to present...