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...Author, Consumptive, gaunt Maxim Gorki (Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov) has survived 63 years in spite of his disease, in spite of one attempt to commit suicide. A bystander like his hero, he took no part in the Revolution but is in good odor with the Soviet Government. Plain Russian Communists like him (although he spends nine months a year at his Italian villa) and have bought over 2,000,000 copies of his books in the last four years. Speaking no English, he does not know the phrase "moral turpitude," but on his single visit...
Gaudier's father was a carpenter who was pleased when his son won scholarships, not so pleased when the scholarship led to garrety art instead of clerkly business. At the Paris library where Henri studied in the evenings he met a gaunt Polish woman of 38, Sophie Brzeska; talked to her hungrily, fell in love. He was 18. Sophie believed she was destined to be a great writer, but she had had nothing but hard knocks. Her family joined the majority of her acquaintance in disliking her. She had been as far as the U. S. (as a governess...
...second attempt was successful. Sophie's last letter to him was bitter, nagging, complaining; she demanded he come back and take her away. Then the news came that Gaudier was dead. Says Ede: "Many people will remember Miss Brzeska in the streets of London, a strange, gaunt woman with short hair, no hat, and shoes cut into the form of sandals." She died in an asylum some few years later...
...reached $1,000,000 daily. Last week, after nearly three weeks' appeal for the $10,000,000, receipts totaled $4,883,159. Over the radio Chairman Payne pleaded: "Drought presses slowly. There is nothing in it to quicken the emotions- unless one sees with his own eyes the gaunt hunger and hopelessness of those affected...
Sibelius' First Symphony by Conductor Robert Kajanus and Symphony Orchestra (Columbia, $7.50)-Great, gaunt music played by the fellow Finn who is Sibelius' chosen interpreter. The Finnish Government is proudly helping to finance the recording of the seven Sibelius symphonies...