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...Ronde the French have reduced cinema to its basic ingredient, the seduction scene. Adopted from a play by Arthur Schnitzler, the film replaces plot with ten love affairs, each interlocking to form a circle. Schnitzler's play, like Tom Lehrer's parody of Voltaire, follows the path of love back to its starting point, perhaps more delicately but with much less humor...
...Dick), to be familiar with various literary devices. The Latin course takes them through Cicero's De Senectute, Livy, Sallust, some of St. Augustine and Horace. The Greek course covers Xenophon, Plato and Homer. In mathematics, students plunge into calculus; in German, they will read such authors as Schnitzler, Heine, Hesse, Lessing and Schiller. Finally, before going to college, they must pass special examinations. Among the types of questions suggested...
...Ronde. A worldly-wise French comedy of bedroom manners in old Vienna, based on Schnitzler's Reigen; with Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon (TIME...
Whether or not it can corrupt anyone's morals, La Ronde (Commercial Pictures) is clearly suitable for grownups and almost as certain to delight them. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, it takes an intimate, cynical view of the mating instinct at play in a Vienna that was turning the century without a break in its giddy stride. Director Max (Letter to an Unknown Woman) Ophuls has lovingly put together this wry ode to love, and brightened it with a galaxy of Continental stars: Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Simone Simon, Gerard Philipe, Simone Signoret, Isa Miranda...
...prisoners seemed well-fed and healthy as they slipped out to freedom. Georg von Schnitzler, a onetime director of Germany's vast I.G. Farben trust, was whisked off by a chauffeur in a black limousine. But most of the paroled men trudged to the railway station near the prison, carrying boxes and bundles. Most were in good humor, but one growled darkly: "Things will change." Another added: "And then those who are out right now will...