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...changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more successful with Vronsky, although the part was loss difficult. Even Stiva, Holly, and Kitty were handled without imagination...
...raised the poison cup of hemlock and escaped the indignity of public execution, modern nations have decided that a man under sentence of death who kills himself is cheating the law. Sole exception is the dignified little Baltic State of Estonia. Until a thwarted Nazi putsch so alarmed President Konstantin Pats last year that he declared a state of martial law, Estonia had ignored the death penalty entirely. Confronted with the new problem of how to execute Estonians, President Pats devised a system of taking them into a forest near Tallinn and shooting them, always in a different glade. This...
...March 25) was notice enough to the Realmleader that Britain would not join France, Russia and Italy in any harsh, concerted effort to make him toe dotted lines on which Germany has signed. Last week in Berlin the French Ambassador was received with studied discourtesy by German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath when he called to protest. On a similar errand the Italian Ambassador was received with the deference Il Duce demands, gets. Considering that words are not enough to impress Hitler, Mussolini this week treated Nazidom to the spectacle of an Italian mobilization. Not calling it by that name...
Storm Troops to Oberammergau. Sure enough, enthusiasm did prevail as soon as German presses printed the great news of how Germany's whole Cabinet, including staid, stuffy Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath and 275-lb. Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, "bounded from their chairs" last week and gave a triple cheer of "Heil! Heil! Heil!" when Adolf Hitler finished telling them in his harshest, most gutturally thrilling German that the page of the Treaty of Versailles on which German signatures are inked is just another scrap of paper. Specifically Messiah Hitler decreed that Germany will...
...terms of sale were initialed in Tokyo last week by Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev and a General Ting, so-called Minister from so-called Manchukuo. Actually the real buyer was Japan through her shrewd Foreign Minister Koki Hirota at whose home the initialing took place...