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Love is certainly a poor translation of the title of Anna Karenina. It would be natural to suppose that the rest of famed Leo Tolstoi's novel would suffer similarly; that it does not, is due in part to the direction of Edmund Goulding and in even larger part to the acting of Greta Garbo...
...story definitely follows the outlines of what has been called "greatest novel in the world." Anna Karenina meets Count Vronsky one snowy day, has an affair with him that reaches its climax when she leaves her husband and its conclusion when she accepts a defeat (which is totally inevitable) by stepping in front of a fast train. That any film producer should begin by calling his picture Love and end it with this necessary but cinematically unconventional tragedy is only one of the many contradictions, which in their sum, make this one of the most striking adaptations yet effected...
There are four moments upon which the focus of the story falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...
Thousands of quarts of pitiful tears, one may safely calculate, have been loosed by readers who have followed the misfortunes of Tolstoi's hapless Anna Karenina, although they fill nearly a thousand goodly pages. Further lacrimal inundations are imminent, for the bearded Russian novelist's masterpiece has at last achieved its grand-operatic setting. The composer of the new opera is one Igino Robbiani, of whom little or nothing is known in the U. S. Is the musical taste of the Queen of Italy to be trusted? If so, Robbiani deserves to be known, for after the premi...
Tolstor's "Anna Karenina...