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...force and infinitely greater sanity. The writer: Georges Bernanos, a French Catholic layman known to Americans as the author of a fine novel, Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940), and a furious, eyewitness denunciation of the Fascist "Holy War" in Spain, Les Grands Cimetières Sous La Lune (The Vast Graveyards Under the Moon...
Kostalonetz has always been one of my idols and I hoped that his first records in a long while (of "Selections from Porgy and Best," "Claire De Lune," and "Pavane" by Ravel) would he up to the standard he has set on his radio program. Kosty has always had the most brilliant of the big "symphonic" Jazz bands and usually makes Mr. Whiteman look sick...
...apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year, which produced "Clair de Lune," probably among the better works of the composer, could also very well produce "Reverie," which looks back on the earlier immature work, as is often the case in a transitional period. The original score contains a pleasing, long-breathed, impressionistic melody, but Debussy has not treated it with great fertility...
...publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit pro-Hitler Cardinal Innitzer...
Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...