Word: gretchen
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...settles her brood in the pine-shantied "Patch," takes in washing, raises her boys, accumulates hard-earned comfort and Daisy, the cow. That Daisy's right hind hoof packs a punch that will bear watching is evident when she kicks young Bob (Tom Brown) into the arms of Gretchen, the house girl (June Storey), to settle the future of the youngest O'Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir to the blarneying ways of his late father, opens a gilded saloon, maneuvers away from Political Boss...
...really neither fish nor fowl; for while composed in the form of a three movement symphony, it violates the classic symphonic principles by its attempt at character delineation and its utilization of representative themes, much as in Wagnerian opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically are Faust himself, Gretchen, and finally Mephistopheles. It is interesting to note that the combination of the divine side of Faust's nature and the nobility of womanhood as expressed in Gretchen are sufficiently strong to vanquish Mephistopheles and to give a triumphant ending to the work. Wagner's Faust Overture is also...
...telling her she could have whatever she wanted for her birthday. "Alas, father, rich as you are, you cannot get me the only thing I want." "And what is that, daughter?" "Oh, if only I could have a child by Hitler!" With many a melting, impressionable Gretchen now in this state of mind, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler was seated last week at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium when a buxom female from Norwalk, Calif., one Mrs. Carla George de Vries, darted through the supposedly impregnable barrier of the Dictator's black-jacketed S. S. Guards and thrust an autograph book into...
Worst feature of the 1936 Salzburg season has been the rain which dampened Max Reinhardt's open-air performances of famed Jedermann ("Everyman") and Faust, in which appeared Paula Wessely, a charming German Gretchen...
INNOCENT SUMMER-Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...