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ROBESPIERRE AND THE FOURTH ESTATE-Ralph Korngold-Moderr...
Last week the biography appeared in the U. S. The author was Ralph Korngold, a naturalized Hollander, who has also written a biography of Saint-Just. He called his book Robespierre and the Fourth Estate, his fourth estate being not the press but the proletariat. The book is important because: 1) it is one of the few biographies of Robespierre in English; 2) into its 417 pages Biographer Korngold squeezes a synoptic history of the jumbled French Revolution for which Carlyle required two volumes; 3) it shows Robespierre as the prototype of Lenin and Hitler...
...fresh and wholly likable comedy by the best comic writer, for the screen or otherwise, whom the U. S. has yet produced. Directed by William Keighley, acted by Warner Brothers' most high-powered cast since Midsummer Night's Dream, staged by Robert Lord and scored by Erich Korngold, it should amply grace next fortnight's Coronation. It should also grace, if not climax, the careers of two amiable young actors from Peoria, Ill. who, among Hollywood's currently swollen quota of remarkable children, are perhaps the most remarkable...
...cinema, and it contains one scene of cinema's first original grand opera-a balcony scene from a work called Romeo & Juliet of which only a few skeleton scenes were ever written. All the music except a short interpolation from Il Trovatore was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose Violanta and Dead City have been given at the Metropolitan and who arranged the Mendelssohn score for Warner Brothers' Midsummer Night's Dream...
Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...