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...build up its collection the company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...
...Tolstoy's War and Peace, war is essentially a moral struggle. From top to bottom of the army, each individual soldier is shown making his choice, determined by his sense of right & wrong, in moments of crisis. But in most World War novels, soldiers are shown caught in a vast impersonal military machine that operates blindly, automatically, uninfluenced by their individual actions. Simple privates or intellectual officers, they are alike in their helplessness and confusion: the machine of which they are part continues to operate regardless of their heroism or cowardice, their strength or weakness, their life or death...
Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...
Peter the First (Lenfilm) is a colossally bad imitation of Hollywood's super-colossal technique. It attempts to compress Tolstoy's story of the 36-year reign (1689-1725) of Peter the Great into ten reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...
...undisciplined style Evelyn Scott attempted to raise from the dead the following peacefully slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling for her unfortunate examples...