Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unfinished Symphony (Gaumont-British) is a highly romanticized explanation of why Composer Franz Schubert never completed his famed Symphony in B Minor. Historically, he wrote it in 1822, two years before he became music teacher to Caroline Countess Esterhazy, with whom he may have been in love. According to this picture, Schubert (Hans Jaray) actually finished the symphony, tore up the end of it out of chagrin at seeing Pupil Caroline (Marta Eggerth) married off to a Hungarian nobleman...
WEAVING his heroic story against the grim tragic background of the Armenian sufferings at the hands of their diabolically cruel Turkish masters, Franz Werfel has evolved a novel which for richness of narrative detail and skillful completeness has few peers. The pitiful plight of this downtrodden Christian people reached its climax during the early years of the World War when the young Turks set their oriental cleverness to the organization of their nation as solidified national unit on the Western pattern...
...FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH? Franz Werfel?Viking...
...front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops out of Ballivian and run a rousing counteroffensive in the north. In a blaze of Bolivian victories last month, Salamanca's candidate for President, Franz Tamayo, was elected...
...Author. A Viennese Jew, Franz Werfel was born a Bohemian in Prague, studied philosophy in Germany, and was teaching in the University of Leipzig when the War called him to the Russian front. Settled in Vienna after the Armistice, he has lived there quietly ever since, proclaiming in poems, essays, plays and novels his tragic philosophy: the brotherhood of man. Great frequenter of cafés, he is fond of lapsing into Oriental calm, seeking inspiration while in that state. Beethoven-locked, corpulent, 44, Author Werfel is known in Austria primarily as a poet. Some of his U. S.-translated...