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Last week Edmund Wilson again demonstrated how consistently he thinks in critical terms. The demonstration: a collection of ten essays that range from an account of a Princeton week end to an introduction to Pushkin's poetry. Not a unified book like his Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers includes a slightly heavy discourse on verse technique, but to compensate for that it has more of the U. S. literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James...
Colonel deBasil's Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo opened last night at the Opera House and continues there through Saturday evening. New numbers in the repertoire include "Coq d'Or," based on Pushkin's fairy tale with music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, "Francesea da Rimini," which is set to music by Tschaikowsky, and "Lex Dioux Mendiantes" with music by Handel aranged by Sir Thomas Beecham...
There are also many works by other authors, including "Pushkin", by Ernest J. Simmons (February 6, $4.00), "How Lawyers Think", by Clarence Morris, professor of Law at the University of Wyoming (April 22, $2.00); "The Discovery of a New World", by Joseph Hall, a story of the antarctic Continent (April...
...Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...
...rambles on for four long pages to come at last to the greatly enlightening closing statement, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I'm coming to be a man . . . " Jeffrey Fuller '38 contributes a well-written book review in the form of an essay, on Ernest J. Simmons' newly published work, "Pushkin." The article discusses the book from the point of view of its own content, and contains a criticism of Pushkin himself...