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...Army's sweep through Manchuria swept up, among other industrial loot, a Japanese optical-goods factory at Mukden. On the guard-box at the factory entrance (see cut) Russian soldiers painted Prince Alexander Nevsky's triumphant boast after his Russians had crushed the invading Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus...
...remembered the grand old days of '19, when they were gay, 'young third secretaries, and Paris was still Paris. Then Maxim's had still been open, and young Maurice Chevalier sang Madelon. Now they, like Chevalier, were getting old; there were no songs to replace the triumphant bugles of Madelon or the drums that rolled through Tipperary...
Czechoslovakia's Communist Ministry of Information frowned on the triumphant march of U.S. syncopation. It encouraged the old, well-loved Czech folk songs ("My sweetheart is drawing wine at the tavern, but I did not come for wine but for love...
During the past 36 years these clashing facts threw off like sparks, bright, brief but sometimes kindling, the enterprises known as little magazines. There were hundreds, a 20th Century phenomenon. Mostly young people published them, wrote for them, read them, fought for them, ruined them, made them ridiculous or triumphant, stuck with them or more commonly got bored and moved on. Naturally no one took them as seriously as they took themselves, not even the three scholars who have now written a just and orderly account of them...
...Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns his own (and mad Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky's) great role, Le Spectre de la Rose, into a dance of death...