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...Nazi persecution. Director Reinhardt, who had his huge indoor Miracle ten years behind him, his huge outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream one year in the future, agreed to take on the job. He called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa Dagh, to do the book. He called in Composer Weill, who had finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny Johnson, to score the spectacle. Designer Norman Bel Geddes, long finished with Lysistrata but not yet started on Dead End, was hired to set the spectacle...
...decision. In one day's skirmish cigarets at Macy's dropped from $1.14 per carton to 64? - of which 60? represented the Federal tax. Edna Ferber's Come and Get It sank from $2.50 per copy to $2.04. Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a $3 volume, opened at $2.82 the first day, closed at $2.64, plummeted to $1.83 before the weekend. Modern Library editions, usually retailed at 95? each, were quoted...
...Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh), America's John Dos Passes (Three Soldiers) have all added to the slowly mounting testimony as to what degree of murder war actually is. Last week another U. S. author added his docket to the record...
Best novel-The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel (TIME...
...from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount...