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Isle of the Dead (RKO Radio) is a shuddery set of improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many...
Lorea, an unabashed romanticist, provided this story of a beautiful girl who grows old waiting for her lover who, of course, has been married for years. Slightly impressionistic poetry, music, and dances, add to the mood of gentle wistful tragedy. The Harvard-Radcliffe production, with superior music by Irving Fine, dances by Mary Small, and Phyllis Stohl's generally tight, workman like direction, gets this across with a few lapses. Such are a slow third act in which the actors are a little too influenced by Chekov, and a few overplayed moments in the first two acts...
...macht's professional military men in that he comes of a noble and wealthy landed family. The family has boasted admirals, generals, statesmen (one, who had been ambassador to France in Bismarck's time, was accused of embezzling state papers and fled Germany), poets (one was the romanticist Ludwig Achim von Arnim, author of Des Knaben Wunderhorn...
...Architects Clark, Wurster and Dinwiddie, is that of an 80-year-old pioneer named Bernard Ralph Maybeck, Brooklyn-born son of a German woodcarver. who went to California in 1894 and later became the founder and director of the University of California's School of Architecture. A romanticist like Frank Lloyd Wright, he was the first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike Palace of Fine Arts at San Francisco...
...great German romanticist, Robert Schuman, Composer William Schuman is a forthright Manhattan-born Yankee. Son of a lithographer, he started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley composer, collaborating with Frank Loesser in such gems as In Love With the Memory of You. Now he teaches composition and leads the chorus at Sarah Lawrence College...