Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason for Sleep. A century ago Czech Frantisek Palacky observed: If the Austrian Empire did not exist, it would have to be invented. Advocates of federation hold that the Danube Valley is a unit, self-sufficient if properly organized, a link between Europe and the Balkans if properly conceived, a bulwark against German expansion if properly designed...
...25th anniversary of CzechoSlovakian independence was celebrated musically last week by two U.S. symphony orchestras. The musical Czech of the hour was the occupied nation's foremost living composer, Bohuslav Martinu, now of Manhattan. In Cleveland (which has one of the largest Czech populations to be found in any U.S. city), Erich Leinsdorf conducted the premiere of Martinu's Second Symphony. In Manhattan, Artur Rodzinski conducted the premiere of a Martinu symphonic poem called Memorial to Lidice. In Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy was rehearsing a third new Martinu composition, a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with the help...
Martinu's music got a fine critical reception. Though he inherits the great Czech tradition of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, Martinu does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious...
Hostages (Paramount) should have an irresistible appeal to devotees of dynamite, sudden death and Luise Rainer. The picture, a tortuous melodrama about the Czech underground, brings Cinemactress Rainer back to the screen after a five-year absence. It also notably advances the talents of prognathous William Bendix...
When a young Nazi disappears from a Prague restaurant washroom, 26 Czech hostages are jailed. Though the coroner's verdict is suicide, none of the hostages is released. Reason: one of them (Oscar Homolka), a Czech collaborationist, has investments which Nazi officials want. The magnate's daughter (Miss Rainer) and her quisling fiancé set out to bribe his way to freedom. Their efforts involve them, unwittingly, in Prague's underground. One member of the underground is prepared to "confess" that he "murdered" the Nazi in order to bring about the release of the hostages. Reason...