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Elegant Form. It was Ole's life and character which inspired Ibsen with the lurid idea of Peer Gynt. Born in 1810, brought up by prosperous parents in the little provincial fishing town of Bergen, Ole Bornemann Bull flatly refused to obey his childhood violin teachers. At 23 he was playing quartets in many prominent European salons, carousing and dueling on the side. In Paris he met 14-year-old Félicie Alexandrine Villeminot, daughter of a French official. After four years he married her. Then he spent years trying to convince her that she should live permanently...
...every clean-swept Swedish town and forest hamlet last week there were such demonstrations on Norwegian Independence (Eidsvol) Day as the North has never seen since Norway broke away from Sweden in 1905. Norwegian flags sprouted from Swedish flag poles. The Royal Opera gave a special performance of Peer Gynt. Crowds cheered the John Steinbeck play The Moon Is Down. In the Stockholm Concert Hall, Professor Nils Ahnlund promised that soon "the trolls will be hunted back into the woods." Then he spoke a truth that all Swedes, regardless of any onetime admiration or rationalization of Naziism, now freely admit...
...Boyg. Playwright Henrik Ibsen is to the Norse what Playwright William Shakespeare is to the British. In his play Peer Gynt, Ibsen's hero, a rustic, wastrel Hamlet, tussles furiously but unsuccessfully with an unseen presence called the Boyg, which may be construed as Peer Gynt's conscience, his better self. The Boyg is also construed as a dominant power in the Norse soul, an ingrained instinct for decency and conservatism against which immorality or forces for change cannot prevail. On many lips last week as the Falkenhorst talons closed on lower Norway was the question whether...
...00The War This Week--Henry Oyen. 8:15 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." 9:00 Excerpts from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." Produced by the 41 Workshop. 9:15 Play It Again.--Popular Music. 9:45 Masters of Music--Sibelius' En Saga, 5th Symphony in E Flat Major, Opus 82 and three songs by Marian Anderson. 10:45 Crimson News, Sports, Interview...
Also Showing The Human Monster (Monogram). Repeated discovery of corpses on the mud flats of the Thames River causes Scotland Yard to suspect foul play. Proving it onvolves Inspector Holt (Hugh Williams), Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) and Diana Stuart (Greta Gynt) in some routine Edgar Wallace blood-chilling in a mysterious home for blind...