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...Indecent and immoral and unfit for public entertainment" were 36 "Class C" pictures including Affairs of a Gentleman, The Affairs of Cellini, Born to Be Bad, Catherine the Great, Dr. Monica, The Firebird, The Girl from Missouri, Little Man What Now, Madame du Barry, Nona, The Scarlet Empress, Of Human Bondage, One More River...
...Firebird (Warner) is a routine Viennese boudoir-&Tpistol mystery which leaves the vague impression that a casual murder may be a fine, broadening influence on a woman. A conceited actor (Ricardo Cortez), who is fond of playing Stravinsky's blood-tingling Firebird, is found shot dead in his bedroom. Was he killed by his onetime wife, whom he had publicly knocked down for dunning him for alimony? Or by his neighbor Her Excellency whom he had invited to his rooms at midnight? Or by His Excellency who may have known of that fact? Or by Their Excellencies' daughter...
...Firebird (by Lajos Zelahy; Gilbert Miller, producer). Zoltan Balkanyi (Ian Keith) was a matinee idol in Buda-Pesth. He also was a devil with the ladies, some of whom did not care for his lustful attentions. One of these was Karola Lovasdy (Judith Anderson), wife of a onetime diplomat (Henry Stephenson) who owned the apartment in which the unwholesome Balkanyi lived. When the actor is discovered dead there is evidence that dark-eyed Actress Anderson is the guilty party. Her apoplectic husband comes to think so, too. Finally he and the rest of the cast are sure of it when...
...Russian Ballet in its triumphal tour of Paris, London, Berlin, New York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre du Printemps with its white bearded barbarians and sonorous gongs...
...follows no such obvious trend. He wrote it when he was tired, perhaps incapable of cutting a trail any further into the forest of such untried dissonances and rhythms as he used in Le Sacre du Printemps. He had long dis carded the skirling imagery of Petrushka and The Firebird. When he wrote Oedipus he was deep in a desire to return to the classicists, anxious perhaps to begin all over again, to see where a new trail would take him. He chose an old, formal pattern fundamentally similar to the Handel oratorios...