Word: faune
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...rash is compelling enough, even break quarantine and show themselves in public. Author Faulkner, with a prominent but still embattled reputation as a proseman, now comes forth with a small (72-page) book of poems. It is his second such venture (in 1924 he published The Marble Faun) and only deep-dyed Faulknerites will find it more fine than frenzied. His simultaneous debut last week as a cinema author was more impressive evidence of his versatility...
...life of an aging harlot is not likely to be much like a faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse...
Musical drollery, even horseplay, is found in the popular "Merry Pranks" of Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary figure in Germany. In this, Richard Strauss introduces many novel twists and at all times the comedy is good. Debussey's "Afternoon of a Faun" will add to the program sublety and charm...
Hauptmann's play begins in the forest with Rautendelein and three of her faery ilk; Nickelmann, the old man of the well, all moss and weeds and dripping; a witch whose herbs were powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard...
...room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with her); nor for the girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother's brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress, but he does write an engrossing story packed with engaging data...