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...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...
Leonid Andreyev's play is difficult to produce because of its resemblance to the Scandinavian drama, especially of Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...
...safe, at least on his own. The Civilian Production Administration last week abolished paper rationing. Newspapers must now scramble for their chunks of the four million tons of newsprint (98% of the 1941 supply) that will be available this year-if enough pulp comes out of the Canadian and Scandinavian woods...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...
...M.G.M.) is a leisurely, kindly story of life among Scandinavian-blooded Wisconsin farmers. Farmer Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson) has set his heart on building a finer barn than he can afford, but the needs of his own family and the burning of the barn of a prosperous neighbor (Morris Carnovsky) give him bigger and better ideas. His somewhat selfish daughter (Margaret O'Brien) loves a calf named Elizabeth, but her neighbor's misfortune inspires her to give up Elizabeth-an act which dissolves the whole countryside in similar generosity. One glowing convert is a city-bred schoolteacher (Frances...