Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canvas is broad, shifting from Chopin's native Poland to Paris or to George Sand's island retreat at Minorca, and finally to the various capitals of Europe, when the fever-racked young composer breaks the hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
...Sherman was right," says Chuck; "wonder if he got his uniforms the same place I got mine!" Sam Wolf learned the real meaning of "Penny Serenade" during one of his banquet pleas the other day. The Popps fright being a thing of the past, he failed to recover the cast-off cash, hence Stan Siskind's recent spending spree...
...Orchestra of Milan's La Scala Opera, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and others; Victor; 10 sides). An anthology containing practically all the brightest blossoms of Puccini's most popular opera, selected from Victor's previously released complete recording. The cast is brilliant, the singing rich in the best garlicky Italian tradition. Recording: good...
...picture is very far from being a total loss. Joseph Cotten's muted, excruciating performance is the best single guarantee of that; some moments of deep warmth and sympathy from Miss Rogers are also valuable. And the rest of the cast and David O. Selznick, Producer Dore Schary and Director William Dieterle have done a good many unpretentiously remarkable things...
...That Edward Franklin, despite an adequate interpretation, seems somewhat immature and verbose for the part hurts the presentation considerably. Leslie Paul, on the other hand, is eminently suited for the role of the heroine and makes Kate Julian the unrestrained, self-possessed girl she should be. In the supporting cast, William Sullivan leads the rest as the school-masterly Mr. Coyle; Lynn Baker's Mrs. Julian is a bit over-neurotic; and Mary Savage is too sharp for the genial, ingenuous Mrs. Coyle. The stage designers have fallen short of the profuse Victorianism that is required...