Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that human beings are fundamentally alike the world over needs constant reminders. The purely relative word "foreigner" ceases to have a definite meaning when we read the Russian stories of Chekhov, the English stories of Katherine Mansfield, the Czech stories of Karel Capek...
...known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces Shakespeare, Byron, Moliére, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Hauptmann, and contemporary Czech plays. As a short-story writer, like Katherine Mansfield, like Anton Chekhov, Author Capek is fascinated by the drama of people's internal workings, but knows better than to try to explain them, leaves a large and readable
DVORAK'S SYMPHONY No. 4 by Basil Cameron and Symphony Orchestra (Brunswick, $4)-Whereby the great Czech will prove to many that he wrote other symphonies than the New World. His Fourth has Czech folk themes, skillfully woven variations...