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...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...

Author: By I. M. H., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Going on to say that "Brothers Karamazov" is the greatest of all Dostoievsky's novels, he pointed out how excellently the split personality of the author is portrayed in Ivan's mental struggle to reconcile the suffering of the world with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simmons Talks on Russian Novelist | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

...analysis of Dostoievsky's "Brothers Karamazov" by Ernest J. Simmons, Assistant Professor of English, brought about 50 members of the Modern Language conference to the Leverett House Junior Common Room last night, as he emphasized Dostoievsky's importance as a novelist, rather than as a prophet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simmons Talks on Russian Novelist | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

...still the most widely-read U. S. author) aver that they do not. Publishers of inexpensive reprints are inclined to agree with the librarians. Releasing figures last fortnight on the sale of his Modern Library series (95? and $1.25), Publisher Bennett Cerf disclosed that Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is the most popular of the Modern Library's 257 titles, has sold 120,000 copies in ten years; that Of Human Bondage and Candide sell widely enough each year to crowd all but the most popular new books. Most surprising figure revealed by Publisher Cerf: in four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Favorites | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...nation puts it down to the bickering, wrestling, fighting, cooing, unfailingly endearing intimacy of Lunt-Fontanne on-stage relations, their expert charm. The Guild paired them in Arms and the Man, The Goat Song, At Mrs. Beam's, Pygmalion, Juarez and Maximilian. In 1927 they did The Brothers Karamazov, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated. They played Caprice in Manhattan and London, returned to Manhattan for Meteor, did Maxwell Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mr. & Mrs. | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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