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Though the originality of his early compositions drew high praise from Critic Romain Holland (Jean-Christophe). it was not until he was 35 that Bloch got into his stride as a composer of distinctly Jewish music, began to color his music with scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute...
...Nobel Prize for literature went to the writer of The Thibaults (1 Mari Sandoz, 2 Romain Rolland, 3 Marcel Proust, 4 Sinclair Lewis, 5 Roger Martin du Card...
Students may obtain tickets beginning at 8:45 o'clock Tuesday morning at Exhibition Hall in Hunt Hall, on presentation of their bursar's cards. Previous films shown in the committee's series have included "La Kermesse Heroique" and Jules Romain's "Dr. Knock...
...copies of a two-volume novel translated from the French, forbiddingly titled The Thibaults. Its little-known writer was Roger Martin du Gard. The imposing boxed edition was made to look even less exciting by quotations from reviews that compared the book vaguely to the works of Balzac, Romain Rolland and Marcel Proust. Martin du Gard, said the New York Herald Tribune loftily, "reconciles at once the fastidious preciosity of Proust and Rolland's passionate evangelism with the traditional body of art." In a year when best sellers included Sorrell and Son, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Beau Geste, Martin...
...Doctor Knock", by Jules Romain, will be presented by the French Talking Films Committee, Thursday and Friday, November 18 and 19, at the Institute of Geopraphical Exporation, it was announced yesterday. Students may obtain tickets for the performances by presenting their Bursar's cards in Hunt Pall on Tuesday, November 16. The film will be shown at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock. This is the committee's second film in this year's series which opened with "Kermesse Heroique" in October...