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HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE - Franz Werfel- Viking...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...
...months been bustling about his office full of goldfish, canaries and tiny turtles, arranging an imposing sequence of seven plays, which began June 28, called "The Story of the Southwest." Five of the plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco's Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Two are new: Miracle of the Swallows, a play about San Juan Capistrano's annual bird visitors by Ramon Romero, Hollywood correspondent for Spanish-language magazines; and Miner...
TWILIGHT OF A WORLD-Franz Werfel -Viking...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934) was one of the best-sellers of 1935, but Franz Werfel had written good books before that. Two of them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea...