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...smile of paternal satisfaction last week as the fourth member of his family went to jail. He had been highly pleased when his second son Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely...
...foreign films are still coming to Boston. Some are intended for the French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...
...comes "Das Lied vom Leben." On the strength of this film, director Alexis Granowsky takes his place beside Murneau and Eisenstein. This "Song of Life" is the story of a young girl's escape from a worldly bridegroom, the last of a dying line, and of her marriage with a young man who typifies the creative spirit, with a future of his own making before him. Merging as it does into symbolism, the story can hardly be more closely described without making it seem either recondite or sentimental. Just as there is no verbal transcription for a symphony, so there...
Perhaps it is better merely to recommend "Das Lied vom Leben" with enthusiasm, and to assure everyone that ignorance of German is no reason to stay away...