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Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...
...free adaptation of Volpone, translated from the German of Stefan Zweig, was produced by the Theatre Guild...
Died. Dixie Tighe (rhymes with Zweig), 41, famed New York Post and I.N.S. foreign correspondent, one of the first newspaperwomen to go overseas in World War II, ex-wife of British Journalist C. V. R. Thompson; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...
...Britisher Margaret Lane's admirable The Tale of Beatrix Potter, the story of the eccentric lady who fashioned and illustrated the children's beloved Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean...
...Ukraine. She gave him the position he had scrambled for all his life, but he died only five months after their marriage. Balzac's 17-year courtship was the most violent chapter in the fantastically turbulent novel that was his own life. Readers will wish that Stefan Zweig had kept himself alive long enough to have finished the proper telling...