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Soon pilgrims began to stream into Cihost. From Prague, the Czech Communist government sent commissions to investigate. Policemen turned the pilgrims away. Father Toufar and his churchwarden were arrested. The Communists closed the church two days later; villagers are allowed to enter it only for Sunday Mass...
When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought "big bravura playing" was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about the highest praise the New York Times could manage was that he "successfully held the attention of the audience." Firkusny, then 25-"much too young," he says now-tried a short U.S. tour without much more luck, then headed for home a little sadder and a great deal wiser...
...stay home very long: Hitler and the German army had also headed for Czechoslovakia. Firkusny went to Paris, forgot his successes as a onetime child prodigy, and began to grow up. Through the war he worked and played in benefits for the Czech government-in-exile. In 1941 Manhattan concertgoers heard him again, playing Chopin with the poise and maturity of a master...
Miss Bergman struggles admirably against these handicaps to portray a displaced Czech who marries a young fisherman solely to escape from the life of a DP camp. The difficulties encountered by the girl in trying to fit into the almost primitive life of her husband's native fishing village on the volcanic island of Stromboli are supposed to lead to her religious conversion...
When an obscure Czech refugee named Frank Muska died 7½ years ago, nobody seemed to know anything about him. It soon developed that he had left safety deposit boxes in London, Boston and Manhattan containing 2,000 shares in a Swiss company called Leader, A.G. Nobody knew much about that either...