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...TIME (Feb. 28) I find the following statement in connection with George Antheil, the composer: "During his expatriation, he concertized widely, married a niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler...
...Trenton, N.J. where his father still runs Antheil's ("A Friendly Shoe Store"). An infant prodigy composer and pianist, George went to Europe at the age of 20, and stayed there for nearly 15 years. During his expatriation, he concertized widely, married a niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. His eccentric compositions such as Ballet Mecanique, written for an orchestra of sixteen mechanical pianos accompanied by the whirring of electric motors, made him Europe's most notorious U.S. composer...
...classics for children and adults, became known as a fey genius whose private life was as original as his books. Better known than he cared to be, he announced to his publishers: "I am leaving America to escape to the jungle. ... I have been compared to Hemingway, Goethe, Menuhin, Schnitzler and Mozart. This has left me with not only a split but a hashed personality. I must leave, take myself to the silent forests of Ecuador and Chile, to write another book...
...House Contain Us (Liveright, $2), a Rumanian prize novel adapted by one Oscar Leonard, is a slick if not sleazy combination of boudoir romance and political satire, might have been influenced by Molnar, Schnitzler, any one of a thousand under-the-pillow French novels...
...opening night, reported wide-awake Columnist Leonard Lyons, a woman who in pre-Nazi Vienna would have merited the Royal Box sat all alone in the balcony: Mrs. Arthur Schnitzler, the refugee widow of Austria's most famous playwright...