Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to cable his paper what he considers the amount of help the Spanish Leftists are getting from abroad. Gist: 20,000 to 22,000 foreign volunteers are fighting for the Leftists. Of these 7,000 have been fighting on the Madrid front. All Leftist tanks are Russian, but paid for with Spanish gold. Some 2,000 Spaniards are undergoing training as pilots now, presumably in Russia. At least 90% of the officers in the Spanish Army went over to the Rightists when war broke; the Leftists have been advised by Russian regular, and French volunteer, officers...
...jittery crew the small, shabby-British freighter Hestia was unlucky because she was named after a goddess (of the hearth). She had run aground, collided with a Russian ship, caught fire. Now they were waiting off Celebes to replace a captain who had just died full of ominous mutterings. Into this Conrad-like setting Author Tomlinson introduces as main character of Pipe All Hands lean, elderly...
...very little by closing your eyes. A lot of very good Beethoven will wash around you, interspersed with some less masterful music which will but whet your appetite for more Beethoven. From time to time grown-ups and children will chatter in a very unintelligible language which is probably Russian. If plot or foreign photography interests you, open an eye every now and then to get the continuity, for there are a few more complications to this scenario than most European classical productions boast...
...child actors, almost all of whom are remarkable for unaffected acting and outstanding musical talent. Without makeup and without tears, they become alive strictly on their own ability. The story concerns two young boys, one eleven, one twelve, whose genius for violin playing makes them a joy to their Russian teacher. Both are to enter a nation-wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza to Beethoven's concerto which is such...
...material for 1937 cinema, this story, adapted from Joseph Kessel's novel L'Equipage, appears to have only one serious fault. Emphasized rather than concealed by the careful direction of Anatole Litvak (a Russian making his Hollywood debut) and the industrious performance of Actor Muni, the fault is that it has been told so many times it has ceased being a story at all. Most banal line: Maury's to Herbillion: "It can't go on like this...