Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A boyhood playmate of Artist Charles Dana Gibson who cut silhouets while he modeled in chewing gum, Sculptor MacMonnies made his biggest news in 1932 when his Civic Virtue was condemned by New York feminists because a male figure had his foot on a female figure's neck...
...Conrad's Under Western Eyes, which was published in 1911 when the terrorism of Nihilists and Anarchists in Russia was capturing popular imagination. Razumov (Pierre Fresnay) is a Russian student with no interest in politics and on the verge of a brilliant scholastic career when he finds a boyhood friend named Haldin (Jean-Louis Barrault) hiding in his rooms after assassinating the Prime Minister. Unwillingly stirred by sympathy, Razumov tries to help Haldin escape, but is trapped into betraying him. Tsarist police then force him to become their tool among the other conspirators, who think Razumov a hero because...
...story is primarily that of two men, Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, who form a boyhood compact to stand by each other, come what may. Blake becomes a power at Lloyd's, and Nelson receives command of the British navy. When the French break through nelson's blocade, the directors at Lloyd's decide to put pressure on the admiralty to reduce Nelson's command and put part of the fleet into services as a merchant convoy. Realizing Nelson's need of every available ship. Blake pleads for his old comrade. Finally, in desperation, he flashes a false message across...
Like Stravinsky, Georges Enesco is better known as a composer. Last week's audience was warmest in praise of his Symphony in E Flat Major, found it packed with' thematic material, glowing with unfamiliar melodies. For those who knew about Enesco's boyhood in the Rumanian countryside, this was not surprising...
...broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors and executives were jolted out of their complacency by the realization that "a pogrom could actually occur in a highly civilized country...