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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This poignant Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil but non-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a Chaplinesque little nobody (Josef Króner) who, because he is an Aryan, is put in charge of the business, and the fate, of a shiningly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kami...
Despite the People's Party's surprise victory, no one expected the coalition era to end. "In Britain, it is possible to govern with a hair-thin majority, but Austria lacks the democratic tradition Britain has," explained Chancellor Josef Klaus, 55, leader of the People's Party. "We are still too weak and the Socialists too strong for us to govern alone." Nevertheless, he intends to use the victory to unknot Austria's badly stalemated governmental processes...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Humor and fantasy heighten the impact of this keen-edged Czech tragedy. In a complacent Slovakian village in 1942, a henpecked nobody (Josef Króner) befriends but ultimately betrays the doomed old Jewess (Ida Kamiñska) whose button shop is given to him by the Nazis...
...inevitable revolt against such excesses was led by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josef Hofmann and Artur Schnabel...
...eight, he was playing in Berlin under the sharp eye of Josef Joachim, who soon brought the Wunderkind to Barth. At eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when...