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...thoroughly worth-while 'March of TIME.' TIME Marches On.'-ED. Christina & Voltaire Sirs: If M-G-M is actually to blame TIME, Jan. 8 is guilty of repeating without comment the anachronistical description of Queen Christina (died 1689) reading Voltaire (born 1694). L. SCHILDKRAUT LEE Cowansville, Que. Sirs: VOLTAIRE WAS CERTAINLY PRECOCIOUS BUT HIS PRENATAL WORK HAS HITHERTO REMAINED UNDISCLOSED STOP SUGGEST THEREFORE THAT DISCOVERY BY MGM ON TIME P. 24 ISSUED JAN 8 THAT CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN" WAS ONE OF HIS READERS DESERVES FURTHER AMPLIFICATION UNDER THE HEADING QUOTE NEWS UNQUOTE STOP J. A. M. DESANCHEZ...
...inspired example of the Flemish miniaturist's artistry . . . full of a robust tenderness that climbs in the Christ to agonized sublimity . . . The Hell, monstrous on its minuscule scale, is terrific." Henry McBride (Evening Sun): "This submission to change involves the non-preferment of one century to another, Mais que voulez-vous? Human nature is weak, and possibly a little weaker just now than it has been for some time, so practically everybody on peering through the lens at the van Eyck Crucifixion will be stabbed to the heart to see the cruelty of the well dresed...
...Tragedy, was then re moved because he was "too unusual." Upton Sinclair and some of his friends put up $100,000, sent Eisenstein to Mexico where he had in mind an ambitious work to interpret the history, character and appearance of the Mexican people. When Eisenstein finished shooting his Que Viva Mexico! he sent it to Upton Sinclair, went back to Russia. U. S. directors, working with high-salaried actors, cannot afford to use much more film than they plan to have in the finished picture. Russian directors, particularly Eisenstein, are much more likely to choose casts of completely untrained...
...French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main et de tout...
...Stage performances are never given to bear out their belief. The few concert performances have made it seem like the product of a tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works was a Berceuse Heroïque, dedicated to Belgium's King Albert. In his illness Debussy had become obsessed by his hatred for Germany, by scorn for the way so many French musicians took Germans for their patterns. As a last pro- test he gave himself the title of Musicien Français. But France...