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...will be made to do manual labor. This will ruin my hands. My playing will be finished." He also learned that his father, a distinguished translator of French classics, had already been arrested in Shanghai on the charge of "translating without authorization" the works of Nobel Prizewinner Remain Rolland...
...Laurents has gone a step further here. Virginia lives in the present. The three girl tormentors, however, are not facets of her personality but rather three historical crises in her life. Laurents, perhaps taking a cue from Jacqueline's dream in Rolland's novel Jean Christophe, has put them all on the same temporal plane--the present--so that the three can converse and interact with themselves, with Virginia, and with the other characters in the play. This dangerous gimmick, adumbrated in Death of a Salesman, works beautifully here and the result is highly effective theatre. It is a fine...
Spare, high-domed Alfred Kantorowicz was one of East Germany's leading intellectuals, onetime intimate of Heinrich Mann, Romain Rolland and Ernest Hemingway, the founder of a guild of anti-Nazi writers in exile, the author himself of half a dozen books, including a lively portrait of the 21-nation battalion he commanded in the Spanish Civil...
...Wife to Gamble. Back in France, his first mate friend packs Rolland off to navigation school, and in a few years Rolland becomes first mate of the Antonine. Off New Caledonia, the Antonine is hit by a hurricane. The wind shreds her sails and splinters her masts; the sea roars across her decks and smashes at her hull. With the captain dying, it is Rolland who tongue-lashes the men and keeps the Antonine afloat; with the captain's death, he gets his own captain's commission...
Before Captain Rolland takes command of his ship, a grave-eyed girl named Genèvieve takes command of the captain. They marry and he takes her to sea with him. A few days out, Genvèieve gets seasick and stays seasick. Rolland, who is a different man at sea from what he is ashore, pooh-poohs her illness and sticks to the deck. Even when the first mate pleads with Rolland to land the sick woman, Rolland refuses. It takes him 20 days to round the Horn, and in that time he comes to know that...