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Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rodin Rathbone (son), English reservists; Brian Aherne, Gary Grant, Charles Laughton, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Richard Greene, John Loder, Directors Robert Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, able-bodied Britons all, and Raymond Massey, Canadian, prepared in Hollywood for a call to British arms. In Paris, Erich von Stroheim, cinemactor-director, who had early training in the old Austrian military, volunteered for the French Army, intended to join the American Volunteer Corps now being formed in Paris, if his offer were rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Catholic if somewhat cursory, Miss Hoffman's chapters on great sculpture are aided by keenly chosen illustrations. Once a worshiping student of Rodin, she speaks with equal understanding of the intense simplifications of Brancusi. But her chief theme is the craft itself. Among other things, she describes in ingratiating detail: the processes of casting in bronze, techniques and mechanisms for making enlargements from a small model, tools, tempers and techniques for working in different types of stone, an orderly scheme for scrubbing a studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carvers & Casters | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...quiet, interminable workman who has gradually taken rank as one of the two or three finest French sculptors. His Assia (see cut), a 35-inch bronze done in 1938, was the chief work shown. Not ten classic "standing nudes" so esthetically satisfactory have been fashioned since the time of Rodin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carvers & Casters | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...another, it almost entirely lacks the pretentious, gassy, self-indulgent writing which has done so much to mar Odets' later work. He wrote Awake and Sing as an engrossed child of the theatre, before he went honeymooning with the cosmos, or confused himself with Le Penseur of Rodin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revival in Manhattan: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Kolbe, Barlach, Lehmbruck are names as familiar to exhibition-goers as Maillol or Rodin. Lehmbruck, that strange, intense artist who committed suicide in 1919, is the creator of monumental figures, some calm and passive, others struggling against a malignant fate. Lehmbruck is essentially a worker in clay, a modeler, but with a rare sense of plastic form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/22/1938 | See Source »

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