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...would be a picture to stand by. Fritz Lang's direction turns the cinema into images which fuse with one's own societal paranoia. There are a whole list of things which you may never do again after seeing M and a few of them are: whistle the Peer Gynt Suite, allow a kid to walk to school without an armed guard, see a floating balloon and not wonder where its owner is. If you only think of Peter Lorre as the whining, pop-eyed comic figure of a million parodies, try this on for size, for his performance...
...well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported social realism from the novel and invented modern prose drama (A Doll's House, Ghosts). Then he passed on to the great pagan passion plays of his old age (The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf...
Died. Pierre Luboshutz, 76, concert pianist; in Rockport, Me. Following his graduation' from the Moscow Conservatory in 1912, Luboshutz served as accompanist for such personalities as Gregor Piatigorsky and Isadora Duncan. He also did scores for Stanislavsky productions including Peer Gynt. Luboshutz first came to the U.S. in 1928 and began performing piano duet concerts in 1937 with his wife, Genia Nemenoff. For 30 years they toured the world, winning critical praise and popular success with their subtle interpretations of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Brahms...
...Toynbee's view, is not simply the Establishment or the Kremlin or the Pentagon but "competitive Individualism, bee-like or antlike Communism, and tribal-minded Nationalism." Such things, Toynbee argues, are responsible for creating "a Boyg-like smog of impersonal relations." Readers of Ibsen's Peer Gynt are expected to recall that the great Boyg is a shapeless cloud "neither dead nor alive; all slime and mistiness." There is really no way to get at Boyg; he "doesn't strike" and prefers to "get all he wishes by gentleness." Ibsen's folk hero Peer is softly...
...Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...