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Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play, none other than the superbly proper, anti-theatrical Vice Chancellor, whose frolicking son marries the leading lady of the "Wells", Miss Trelawny. This is one of Dramatist Pinero's early plays, yet it does not have the mutton-chop sleeves of his later pity-poor-Paula scenes...
...Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins thrown over their shoulders saluted. They saluted again when the three other Habsburg Archdukes entered: Archduke ("Papa") Friedrich (father of Albrecht); Archduke Josef, his mutton chop whiskers sprouting above a crimson field-marshal's uniform; and his son, Archduke Franz, clad in a golden tunic, lost in the high sable collar of his purple cape...
...musical events, for which there is hardly space to do more than mention, are taking place over the weekend. This afternoon in Jordan Hall at 3 o'clock, Mischa Levitzki, a noted though young pianist, will give a recital of Beethoven, Schumann, Chop n and others. Tomorrow at 3.30 in Symphony Hall, Pablo Casals, the greatest living master of the violoncello, will perform a Sonata of Bach in G. major; a Sonata in D major by Locatelli, our eighteenth century composer; Beethoven's great 'cello Sonata in A major and an Adagio and Allegro by Schumann...
...played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the onetime Kaiser fells a modest cord or two each year in Doorn, Mr. Bigelow is indefatigable as a log and kindling splitter at his 120-year-old rustic abode, "Bigelow Homestead," in Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. (TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through...