Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selznick saga is a fantasy told in light signs over Broadway, a loud scandal whispered in file copies of Variety, a legend forgotten in the smoke that curled out of spittoons in the Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold...
Sibelius' En Saga and Valse Triste by Conductor Eugene Goossens and Symphony Orchestra (Victor, 2 records, $1.50 each)?Cincinnati's Britisher takes his turn at translating the increasingly popular Finn. Goossens' language is clear and direct...
Whatever its merit, the German Lindbergh saga is more pretentious, more quaintly imaginative than anything done on the same subject in the U. S. It is the collaboration of two young moderns -Librettist Bert Brecht, called "The German Kipling" because his verse is of the vigorous, ballad type, and Composer Kurt Weill. Composer Weill won notoriety if faint praise last year for his opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a gruesome piece set in an imaginary U. S. Sodom where money is the gluttonish god. Lindbergh's Flight makes the same attempt at realism...
These 19 footnotes begin in 1821, end with the Armistice. Only a student of The Forsyte Saga could untangle the relationships of the characters, but most of the stories will stand alone. The best: Revolt at Roger's (two children mutiny to save a beloved butler from dismissal) ; The Dromios (a London night-adventure of two brothers who understand each other without much speech) ; Soames and the Flag (a history of the War in one old Britisher's mind...
...Author. John Galsworthy, 63, read law at New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar, but disliked it; took to traveling and writing instead. So great is the fame of his Forsyte Saga that last spring a telephone exchange in Hacken sack, N. J. was named Galsworthy. He has a prejudice against cinematization, but his famed Old English (with Actor George Arliss) at last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them...