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...subject for musical comedy, the frail, dreamy character of the real Edvard Grieg was more musical than comic. But Song of Norway's librettists depict the gentle, gnomish composer as a heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three...
Passing Through. Battle-weary but still pushing on, the 82nd made a daring crossing of the Douve River. By nightfall Thursday, its general had his command post at a turreted chateau overlooking St.-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. In the morning, the general personally reconnoitered the frail, sagging bridge leading into the crumbling, burning village, decided it would do. The 82nd marched...
...They Were. Some of the letter writers: a Buffalo truck driver who had been in the New York National Guard for nine years; a Dartmouth graduate of 21; a 30-year-old Iowa farmer who had been frail and sickly all his life and who had never been away from home overnight before he joined the Army; a hotel manager of 23 who had his own orchestra; an automobile mechanic; a 24-year-old reporter on the Shelby, N.C. Daily Star; a 27-year-old employe of the National Shawmut Bank in Boston; a 24-year-old fur worker from...
Swedes saw frail Professor Sakimura, unshaven and unkempt, wandering through Stockholm's parks, sometimes slumped in dejection on a bench, or stretched in fitful sleep behind a hedge. Last week the struggle with his conscience ended. Swedes saw four Jap officials hustling haggard Professor Sakimura to a waiting Berlin plane...
...important objects of the campaign is the recruiting of service men's wives, sweethearts and friends Men in the armed forces are traditionalist wary of letting their female friends join up. There fears range from worried over the constitutional damage that Navy discipline might wreak on their frail little loved ones to fixations about the girls treatment in the hands of fiendish...