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Died. Karel Capek, 48, No. 1 dramatist of Czecho-Slovakia; of influenza; in Prague. A student of philosophy (William James, John Dewey), Karel Capek played a leading part in introducing pragmatism and U. S. literature to the intellectual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the same time he wrote two plays, The World We Live In and R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), protesting against mechanization and the technical perfection of Western civilization. As an exponent of modern Czech literature and a supporter of ex-President Benes, he was in disgrace during the last few months...
Fortnight ago Czech Playwright Karel Capek's Power and Glory was produced in London with Vienna-born Oscar Homolka in the two leading roles. On opening night most of the women in a hushed audience wore black, aware that Homolka would come straight to the theatre from the inquest following his young wife's death from an infection...
...WITH THE NEWTS-Karel Capek, translated by M. & R. Weatherall -Putnam...
...musical comedies; newt-problems before the League of Nations. End comes, of course, when the newts, armed by now and tired of it all, rise against their masters and begin blowing up dams, breakwaters, shorelines and continents while mankind, in a dither, retreats to the mountains. There Author Capek (pronounced Chah-peck) leaves them, with the issue for mankind still in doubt, but definitely ominous-looking...
...Wellsian fantasy than he could chew. Through the rest of the book, however, he does give about as copious a working-out of the satiric possibilities of his theme as could possibly be wished for, and while in some parts of this the creaking of the Capek brain is depressingly almost audible, in others-particularly those dealing with the grave struggles of the diplomats to cope with the plethora of newts-the irony is sharp and vigorous. In any case, at book's end the reader will feel that he has pretty much covered the subject of newts...