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...Living Dramas of the Bible" put on by Columbia Broadcasting System.* Conceived by Assistant Director of Broadcasts Douglas Coulter, produced by Max Wylie, the first Living Drama was a thoughtful, serene projection of the familiar troubles of Job. Among its actors were two MARCH OF TIME voices and Stefan, son of famed Pianist Artur Schnabel. The Job act was followed last Sunday by a less leisurely one detailing the career of Joseph, whose repulse of Potiphars Wife was done by a series of understatements culminating in her "I say you are to stay with...
Married. Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell ("Jo") Makaroff, 30, grand- daughter of the late Founder George Huntington Hartford of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., divorced last December from Caviar Tycoon Vadim Stefan Makaroff; and Barclay K. Douglas, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; at Tallahassee, Fla. He is her third husband, she his second wife...
...ambitious dress model who rises to the top through chance, Kay Francis plays the lead opposite Claude Rains in "Stolen Holiday", feature picture of a mediocre show at the University. Playing the part of Mademoiselle Nicole Picot, she is completely taken in by a crooked financier, Stefan Orloff, who gives her everything she wants, until she is owner of the greatest fashion shop in Paris and at the top of Paris society...
...chief interest in this otherwise stereotype film lies in its explanation of the Orloff (Stavisky) method of financing. Starting from humble beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of government subsidized pawn shops. Desiring an entire into society to further his ends, he elevates Niki (Kay Francis) from an obscure mannequin to the foremost couturiere in Paris. Using her as a front, he stage lavish balls and manages to get the names of many of the important governmntal officials linked...
...martyrs--and this in the years when the Raphaels and Peruginos were turning out the sweet, peaceful solemnity of their religious paintings. The visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar, of which Stefan George wrote; nor the mystic Incarnation of the Altar, placed in a little Gothic chapel where "lines live and flame and quiver, figures twine and inter-wine, pillars shoot upward, arches swing, towers stretch and strive to heaven...