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...1930s were a different story. The depression cut into its subscription list, but the Guild lost ground in Manhattan because so many of its productions lacked the old vitality. During the '30s the Guild often neglected good young talent for bad, produced Maxwell Anderson's inflated poetic dramas, second-rate O'Neill, third-rate Shaw...
...more than half of Europe the Press has been destroyed; in the other half it is mostly venal or emasculated. Here in America journalism is free-conomically free to engage all the talent in the world, free to show the truth," Mr. Luce stated...
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...when the journalist Friedrich Benjamin is kidnapped into Germany and Sepp is called to work at his desk, he uncorks a talent for satire so useful that uneasily he neglects his music...
Paris Gazette tells of many others besides the Trautweins: of Wiesener, a man of talent sold out to the Nazis, who salves what conscience he has in writing a brilliant, corrupt biography of Beaumarchais, and a secret journal; of Raoul his son, a bright, sensitive young crook, who tries leading a French-fascist Youth Movement, writes a scalding novel about his father; of Elli, a "helpless" and much-helped refugee who, flufily shouldering her betters out of the way, manages to make out very nicely...