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However much he is criticized Stravinsky continues to go his own strange and independent way. He makes no excuse for his frequent concert appearances. He has a family to support in France: a wife who is his cousin, an 80-year-old mother, four children-Feodor and Milena who paint, Sviatoslav, a pianist, Milka, who is not yet grown. At the mention of his children last week Stravinsky declared: "God be with them, there shall be no more...
...commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French, the other in English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero de la Triste Figura. He was getting $200,000. To look more like the lank old knight he had dieted and exercised to reduce his barrel figure. Spectators on location noted that the fastidious singer-actor Flitted daily the ribby old horse playing...
...years ago a sadly disillusioned French girl packed her meagre belongings, said a bitter good-by to New York, took the first boat home. She had been in a Grade D .Shubert show. Its run was short. No one took much notice of the songs she sang. Basso Feodor Chaliapin and La Argentina, the dancer, were equally unfortunate on their first U. S. visits, but both had sensational comebacks. Last week luck had changed for Lucienne Boyer...
BLACK MONASTERY?Aladar Kuncz? Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). On the small shelf of the world's prison literature, side by side with Feodor Dostoevsky's The House of Death and e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, a place will be found for the late Aladar Kuncz's Black Monastery. The record of a five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt...
DUEL-Ronald Fangen-Viking ($2.50). When Feodor Dostoevsky died 53 years ago. a light went out of literature's night sky that appears only once in a blue moon. Last week U. S. readers were rubbing amazed eyes, asking themselves if the moon were not once again blue. For Duel, Norwegian Author Ronald Fangen's first, book to be brought out in the U. S.. shone with an unmistakably Dostoevskian light. Like his great prototype. Author Fangen is a foreigner but his translated words need no visa. The world he writes about is the same world...