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...Mille's technique as a director. His scene is Russia in 1917, his theme the strife between the blue-blooded aristocrats and the Russian Reds. It is a film showing all of DeMille's excellences and all his defects. The scenario was written by a Rumanian, Konrad Bercovici, and its original motive is the song of the same name, made famous in this country by the Chauve Souris. Incidently the song is better than the movie, but at that the film...
Readers of history, biography and novels who wait for Mr. O'Brien's annual pronouncement to see what has been what in the short-story field, will applaud three rising young men this year, Barry Benefield, Nathan Asch, Glenway Wescott. The hardy perennials are welcome: Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Elinor Wylie. Others: Sandra Alexander, Bella Cohen, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Rudolph Fisher, Walter Gilkyson, Manuel Komroff, Robert Robinson, Evelyn Scott, May Stanley, Milton Waldman, Barrett Willoughby...
Author. Educated in his native Rumania, Konrad Bercovici entered the U. S. in 1916 with his Rumanian wife. Soon his stories of gypsy life were appearing in The Pictorial Review, the Century, Harper's and other magazines. His name became a familiar one in the columns of The Nation, The New Republic, The Masses, and The Liberator, where he wrote on sociological questions from the vantage of an educated man, an immigrant to one of the most complex and multicolored cities on earth?New York. The completeness with which he assimilated the flavors, forces and antecedents of his new surroundings...
...MARRIAGE GUEST?Konrad Bercovici ?Boni & Liveright...
...knew the town of New York as well as Konrad Bercovici does, I should be sure never to be bored of an evening. In this latest book of his, he tries to explain the foreign quarters, and does it admirably; but the joy of discovery can never be ours if we follow a guide book. I shall never forget one or two early pilgrimages with him among strange coffee houses and narrow streets. Why not write a novel, Mr. Bercovici, that will catch the impressive magic of cosmopolitan New York...