Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...
...Anna Karenina" at the University this week is certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more...
...admirers of Tolstoi, then, "Anna Karenina" is sadly disappointing. Admires of Garbo will feel differently. She is definitely Garbo throughout, not Anna, but nevertheless gives a convincing performance. (This is a trick common among Hollywood stars who are personalities, not necessarily actresses.) The picture as a whole, in fact, is not too unsatisfactory when considered merely as a picture, not as the translation of a novel; it is good Hollywood romance...
...thickset, moon-faced Russian who travels every year to Europe, observes more new talent, signs more big new conracts than any one man in his risky profession. Solomon ("Sol") Hurok has always had a weakness for Russian perormers. He has managed Efrem Zimbalst, Mischa Elman, Feodor Chaliapin, Anna Pavlova. He spent $75,000 to import the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). Last week in Manhattan Manager Hurok introduced still more Russians: 19 choristers from Paris who call themselves the Moscow Cathedral Choir...
...forthcoming ballet, he was about to turn out Bright Star, which was to be as pleasant and profitable as Paris Bound. Bright Star slipped temporarily behind a cloud when tried out on the road last winter but when the lights went down at its Manhattan premiere last week, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, in the fifth row, and Joan Crawford, in the fifteenth row, both sat up expectantly in their seats. What subsequently happened boded ill for the Barry ballet...