Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene. TIME will continue to "borrow" (i.e. employ) the best radio dramatic talent available. Another of Collier's actors is William ("Bill" ) Adams who does "Uncle Henry." In "The March of Time" he has played Mayor William Hale Thompson, Speaker Longworth, and the resurrected soldier of Miracle at Verdun...
When Professor Mendelssohn-Bartholdy lectures at Emerson tomorrow night, undergraduates will be able to hear a distinguished authority speak on one of the most crucial political questions in Western Europe today, the relations between France and Germany. The struggle which has never been long dormant since the Treaty of Verdun in 1843 has manifested itself again in general suspicion and some show of hostility since the proposed Austro-German customs union was announced. On the issue of the present crisis will depend the Briand Pan-European Plan, and perhaps indirectly, the peace of Europe...
...Petit Cemetiere at Verdun, on the eve of Armistice Day, 1934, a crowd of tourists is gathered. As they drift away, one of their number remains. Darkness falls about him. In the increasing gloom a great voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the bereaved shall be answered, that the fallen shall be resurrected, permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy...
Miracle at Verdun. What would happen if the 13,000,000 War dead should suddenly push back the mould from their faces, rise in their tatters from the grave? There would be 13,000,000 more mouths for the world to feed, 13,000,000 extra jobs to be found, 13,000,000 social readjust- ments to be made. Would the world which now mourns them welcome back the brave from their sleep? With such portentous questions as these is Miracle at Verdun, the Theatre Guild's latest opus, concerned. To produce its ambitious piece, the Guild has employed...
Author of this startling play is the late Hans Chlumberg, an Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece...