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...author's genius is undeniable in the earliest story, "Little Herr Friede-mann," the stark, pathetic account of a hunchback, whose reasoned contentment is shattered by his sudden love for a flashing Valkyrish woman. Her cruel scorn for his declared love drives him to drowning himself ludicrously?head in the river, feet on the bank...
...family thinks she is stark, staring "buggy." But she tells her father her secret. He, a kindly babbitt, understands and finally helps Patsy to find the arms of the realtor...
...Hills" is much better in film form than as a novel, because it reveals the heart of the Arkansas-Missouri Ozarks in all their beauty, picturesqueness, and wildness. In a glorious setting we have a typical elemental drama of emotion among the Arkansas mountain folk. Feuds, stills, stark love, stark hate, stark death, are all mixed in best First National style. The conglomeration, however, is successful and the film deserves to be shown in the same theatre at which Paul Whiteman and his kingly entourage plays "Rhapsody in Blue...
France. Since Frenchfolk are proverbially less hardy than Britons, despatches reported no skating orgies or icewater swims in France, but rather much stark misery...
Proudly in the front rank of contemporary composers stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear...