Word: zweig
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Case of Sergeant Grischa (RKO). When this story was published as a novel in the U. S. a year ago it was hailed as a masterpiece, in spite of the fact that its author, Arnold Zweig, had constructed it awkwardly. If Herbert Brenon, who directed the picture, had torn down the book and built it properly, starting the story at its real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous...