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...wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into the strange world of French school life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures. The youngest girl, Klari-soon so assimilated she was called Claire-was most deeply influenced by the family transplanting, becoming vigilant and wary as a child, defiant and aloof as an adolescent, practical and forthright with a surprising insight into people as she grew...
...Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind as she is in nationality, rejects her German lover, while Jani is turned down by his French sweetheart and only Klari's international affairs work out happily as she gets the man she wants...
...Bride of Torozko (by Otto Indig; Gilbert Miller and Herman Shumlin, producers). When the recorder of Torozko, Rumania, looks up the birth credentials of the village belle, he finds that she is not, as she thinks, the daughter of Catholic peasants but a Jewish foundling. Klari (Jean Arthur) promptly breaks her engagement to the village tosspot, goes to live with a kindly old Hebrew publican (Sam Jaffe), learns to like the Talmud. The town recorder looks into the matter further and discovers that Klari is neither Jew nor Catholic but a Protestant foundling. She shuts the Talmud and reopens...
...amiable racial controversies in The Bride of Torozko are decorated by observations like the publican's: "Everyone should be a Jew for four weeks. As for me, two weeks would be enough." It contains its complement of minor characters: a simpleton, a schoolmaster. Klari's girlfriend. If it bad been transplanted, like Sidney Howard's The Late Christopher Bean, instead of merely translated, by Ruth Langner, its merits as a play might have been more apparent...
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