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...list of plays under consideration are: "The Goat Song," an Austrian drama by Werfel; "Danton," by the French writer Romain Rolland; "The Main Thing," by the Russian Evreinov; a German play "Montezuma," by Hauptmann. "The Freaks," an Italian work of Pinero; and two English plays "Prisoners of War." "The Masque of Venice" by Gribble, and "The Insect Comedy," by the Czecho-Slovakian dramatist, Capek...
...Reverend Karl Rolland, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Reverend Karl Rolland, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
ANNETTE AND SYLVIE?Remain Rolland. Translated from the French by Ben Ray Redman ? Henry Holt ($2.50). Among other notable equipment, the French mind possesses a love of Definition and innumerable definitions of Love. Remain Rolland, who professes that his characters choose him rather than he them, has now been selected by a strong-headed, rich-blooded French virgin (Annette) for the purpose of establishing, beyond all peradventure, certain emotional processes: how she came, after her wild but lovable father's death, to hate her vulgarian half-sister (Sylvie), then to love her passionately; to love an Italian bravo, forget...
...biography is superbly successful, and the translation of it is excellent. The spirit of Rolland pervades the book, as does the spirit of Gandhi--indeed the two are often at one. He ends his summary of Gandhi's influence with these prophetic words: "One thing is certain, either Gandhi's spirit will triumph, or it will manifest itself again as were manifested, centuries before, the Messiah and Buddha; till there finally in manifested, in a mortal half-god, the perfect incarnation of principle of life which will lead a new humanity on to a new path...