Word: danton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might...
Superficiality is occasionally relieved by a clever twist in the narration of witticisms. But the recurring lapses into distasteful English, the omission of significant detail, a complete lack of spontaneity, and lengthy debate as to the relative merits of secondary sources are inexcusable. When Mr. Cooper states that "Danton did not attain even to the Tammany definition of an honest man," when he asserts that Talleyrand "took no open part" in the controversy of the Three Estates of 1789, when he commits the flagrant sin of perpetrating anti-climactic epigrams, it is time to call a halt...
...haggis, but there are flashing moments which can only be accounted for by the finest, most digestable port. True these vibrant moments when they happen to be historical as well are seldom correct, but who really cares. It is just as pleasant to dwell upon the imagined death of Danton as it is to come to grips with the real fashion in which he fled this vale of tears. It is a particularly moving picture, that of the squat unheroic figure standing at the guillotine staring off over the sweating Paris crowd murmuring to himself-'Then I shall never...
...Charles and Mary", one of the plays under discussion by Joan Temple, well known English writer, is based on the life of Charles and Mary Lamb. This play was for a long time popular in London. "Danton's Death", by George Buechner, has been done in German in New York by the Max Reinhardt players but has never been given in English. "Wozzeck", another production of the same author, has been presented in this country as a grand opera, but never as a drama. "The Chaulk Circle" is an oriental fantasy which has enjoyed great success in Germany under...
...poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt's troupe; Wozzeck, found in fragmentary form years after his death...