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Until he retired a couple of years ago, Serge Eisenstein, Russia's top-notch producer-director, set the pace for film-makers in Hollywood, as well as in his own country. "Alexander Nevsky," which opened last night at the Fine Arts, marks his return to favor and to the cinema world...
...more than made up for it in his comeback attempt, for "Alexander Nevsky" is as intensely nationalistic a film as any which local screens have shown in recent years. Basing his story on the struggles of the heroic Russian cavalry against the invading Teutonic knights of the 13th century, Eisenstein has created a picture which is more enthusiastic than sound, more spectacular than it is well-knit...
Bloodletting is nothing new to Odessa. During the Crimean War it was unsuccessfully attacked by the Franco-British Allies in 1854; later it was muffed by the Turks in the Russo-Turkish troubles of 1876-77. In an unforgettable silent film, Director Sergei Eisenstein recorded the Cossack slaughter and pogroms which followed the mutinied battleship's landing (1905) at Odessa's port. After the Bolshevik Revolution the city was in turn occupied by Austrian, German and French forces, and the monstrous General Simon Petlure (whose murderer a French jury in 1926 acquitted and fined one franc) also...
Julian C. Eisenstein, of Warrenton, Montana, Second Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, who is concentrating in mathematics, and will attend the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Other officers chosen were William Ketchum '41 of Lowell House and Evanston, Illinois, Second Marshal; and Julian C. Eisenstein, of Lowell House and Warrenton, Missouri. Ketchum is a member of his House committee, while Eisenstein, a national scholar, is secretary of the Mathematics Club...