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Little happens. Frivolous, warmhearted Madame Ranevsky (Eva LeGallienne) returns, after years abroad, to the old family estate where she lives with her daughter, stepdaughter and fibreless brother (Joseph Schildkraut). They will lose their home, she learns, unless she sells off their beautiful cherry orchard. This she cannot bear to do; to her, the symbolic part means more than the actual whole. So the estate is sold, Madame Ranevsky goes back to a worthless lover in Paris, and her incompetent brother gets a job in a bank...
Moral Basis. In answer to Occidentals who thought his Oriental formula fibreless, little Mohandas Gandhi last week declared that the U.S. and Britain lack the moral basis for waging war. In an interview with the United Press, he said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
...Chekhov's best play, The Sea Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine...
...marshalling together for reprobation of "Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform." A critical article touches "Some Recent Volumes of French Criticism," and there is an article by Kate Hilliard, whose name is nowadays seen so seldom, upon "The Easter Hare." The Contributor's Club is very pale and fibreless...
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