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Russians at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow claimed earlier this week that they have observed radio waves transmitted from a star that fluctuate regularly over a 100-day cycle. They concluded only intelligent beings could be responsible for such periodicity, since astronomers have never before found a natural source of radiation with radio signals that change in intensity...
...rivalry for prestige in both the creative and performing arts. Film Director Jean Renoir recently drew 400 students to his class at U.C.L.A., a figure previously reached there only by Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...
...Other Hollywood directors, he remembers distinctly, knew nothing about their craft, the big studio producers rejected anyone with ideas, and the unknowns he ushered into fame -William Powell, Gary Grant-were ungrateful. He exposes in painful detail the ineptitude and neuroses of Actors Emil Tannings and Charles Laughton. By Sternberg's account, Laughton was not only incapable of delivering the simplest line, but could not begin a scene without listening to a recording of the Duke of Windsor's abdication speech, was in a constant state of panic, and froze so often in front of the camera that...
...account of Dietrich and the Svengali-Trilby relationship that produced The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman is pitiably bitter. While other stars complained of Sternberg's cruel direction, Marlene loyally praised the very hardships he put her through, as when he made her walk barefoot across the blazing desert while filming Morocco with Gary Cooper. But to Sternberg this was no more than a deliberate plot designed by Dietrich to gain public admiration for herself and to shower abuse on him. He recognizes some talent in her, chiefly an ability to follow direction...
...time, Sternberg's films were criticized for being static, plotless, "two-dimensional fabrications." Today film buffs recognize his early Salvation Hunters and The Blue Angel as masterly classics, but recognition has come too late and.too grudgingly to allay Sternberg's bitterness, which infects his vision and distorts what is otherwise a fascinating narrative...