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...concert. Even such a cautious commentator as white-bearded Frederick T. Birchall, the New York Times Pulitzer prizewinner, announced that it was a "major event" in the Berlin season. There were plenty of speeches and after the concert thirsty bandsmen joined in a great Bierabend. Milwaukee's bandsmen downed stein for stein, many of them spoke German and 50% were of German descent...
...money ($25,000 or more) to produce a good revue as it does a bad one. What distinguishes the successes from the failures is the x quantity of taste and talent. On that score the producers of Keep Moving had bad luck.* Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently derivative tunes. Then there are the Singer's Midgets, awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse...
...readers will agree that all Editor Van Doren's examples deserve to be included in such a collection, or that every example is truthful, beautiful, alive, but nearly every-one will find some of his favorites. Arranged handily in chronological order, Modern American Prose begins with Gertrude Stein (1909), ends with an Epilogue by Editor Van Doren, spanning "the years which may be said to have begun with the Younger Generation and to have ended with the New Deal...
Like the A. E. F.'s "Lost Battalion." the Lost Generation (named by Gertrude Stein, advertised by Ernest Hemingway) was not really lost but merely mislaid. A crowd of prodigal sons who refused to come home, this Lost Generation was the self-consciously intellectual counterpart of the late U. S. phenomenon, Flaming Youth. Except for a few Peter Pans and a few suicides, these War Babies have now-grown up. In Exile's Return Malcolm Cowley takes a good look at his literary generation, admits "it was an easy, quick, adventurous age, good to be young...
Invitation to a Murder (by Rufus King; Ben Stein, producer). Never a Dashiell Hammett when he was writing his murder tales. Playwright King's dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from...