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Foreigners with no taste for such blood & thunder could have instead from Fascist Playwright Luigi Pirandello, as that Nobel Prizeman landed in Manhattan last week, a comparison of Abraham Lincoln to Benito Mussolini who is going to free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
BETTER THINK TWICE ABOUT IT-Luigi Pirandello-Dutton ($3). Thirteen short stories by the 1934 Nobel Prizewinner...
...Dormer. Nobel prizes other than Peace are awarded in Stockholm. Last week on the same day that Norway's Crown Prince Olaf watched Premier Mowinckel award Mr. Henderson in Oslo, King Gustaf V of Sweden awarded the other Nobel winners: Literature, scrubby-bearded Italian Dramatist Luigi Pirandello (TIME, Nov. 19); Medicine, split between three U. S. physicians, Drs. George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple who found that a liver diet helped pernicious anemia (TIME, Nov. 5) ; Chemistry, Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia University for his discovery of "heavy hydrogen" (TIME...
...further illustration of the Pirandello thesis that "nothing is true, but anything might be" was given U. S. theatregoers in 1925 with the production of Right You Are If You Think You Are. Here a husband and a mother-in-law are convinced that his wife and her daughter are two different people. In the mouth of an observer who tolerantly holds that both are right, Pirandello has stated his whole dramatic philosophy: "What can we know really about other people-who they are-what they are-what they are doing, and why they are doing...
...latest works Playwright Pirandello has taken the Six Characters theme one spectacular step farther. Tonight We Improvise uses members of the audience for cast, has some of its most dramatic action take place during the intermission in the theatre lobby...