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Professor Bixler, " 'Geist' and 'Leben'" Andover...
...foreign films are still coming to Boston. Some are intended for the French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...
...comes "Das Lied vom Leben." On the strength of this film, director Alexis Granowsky takes his place beside Murneau and Eisenstein. This "Song of Life" is the story of a young girl's escape from a worldly bridegroom, the last of a dying line, and of her marriage with a young man who typifies the creative spirit, with a future of his own making before him. Merging as it does into symbolism, the story can hardly be more closely described without making it seem either recondite or sentimental. Just as there is no verbal transcription for a symphony, so there...
Perhaps it is better merely to recommend "Das Lied vom Leben" with enthusiasm, and to assure everyone that ignorance of German is no reason to stay away...
...Alfred Pochon, second violin; Nicholas Moldavan, viola; Gerald Warburg, violin cello. The concert will include the following program: Quartet in G major, Opus 76, Number one, by Haydn; Adagio sostenuto, by Wilhelm Friedman Bach; "La file aux cheveux delin", by Debussy; Tarantella, by Schelling; Quartet in E minor ("Ausmeinem leben") by Smetana...