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...Moonlight Sonata (Pall Mall) has its soul in Parnassus, its feet in Grub Street. A trite British treatment of cinema's tritest theme, it makes the wobbly point that music hath charms to shoo the city slicker out of the country girl's heart. But what lofts it to the skies for two memorable reels is the piano-playing of 77-year-old Ignace Jan Paderewski, most notable pianist of his time, in cinema a tired old man in a tacky dress suit, a mismanaged...
...Polonaise and Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, the camera returns again & again to watch his forceful hands. When he has finished, a small child scampers up to him, followed by her parents. He greets them, agrees to play as an encore the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Later, over the brandies, one of those inevitable cough & spit drawing-room pundits quizzes the old maestro on what seemed to him an extraordinary departure from concert-hall form-playing the Sonata as an encore. Quietly. Paderewski starts to explain what the Sonata has meant in the lives...
...thing for a man holding one office to think about obtaining another office. It impairs his usefulness. It is like necking in a closed car on a moonlight night, after a good dinner and champagne. Don't start...
More than one critic has observed that that period is unusual for the quantities of mediocrity it produced. Indian maidens by waterfalls, snowy-breasted brooklets and 10?-store moonlight still testify to the infinite sentimentality of its influence. Nevertheless, the Whitney show of 81 paintings by 47 artists proved that wholesale contemners of the 19th-Century landscape have been unable to see the woods for the trees. In Colonial America, there was little demand for landscapes. Unknown journeymen painters turned out a few which, like Runaway Horse (see cut), are still as fresh as daisies...
Educated as a sculptor and painter Jensen reveals his artistic background in all his silver work. His designs are well-balanced and full of rhythm. The color and texture of his works are intended, in his own words, to suggest the "play of moonlight on water...