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AMOK-Stefan Zweig-Viking...
...Author. Stefan Zweig, of Salzburg, Austria, is no kin to Arnold Zweig of Berlin, author of The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Well and comfortably educated, he wandered the world, might have continued indefinitely had it not been for the War, which turned him to writing and made him a European bestseller. Manhattan theatre-goers know his adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Other U. S.-translated books: Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouche...
BEST SHORT STORIES OF THE WAR-Ed. by H. C. Minchin, Andre Maurois, Arnold Zweig, Coningsby Dawson; Introduction by H. M. Tomlinson-Harper...
...Case of Sergeant Grischa (RKO). When this story was published as a novel in the U. S. a year ago it was hailed as a masterpiece, in spite of the fact that its author, Arnold Zweig, had constructed it awkwardly. If Herbert Brenon, who directed the picture, had torn down the book and built it properly, starting the story at its real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous...
...Boston censors are peculiar; they banned our play, and let 'Volpone', in Zweig's version of Ben Jonson's rare bit, run merrily on when the Guild presented it here last spring. I don't see that 'Strange Interlude' is as bad for public consumption as 'Volpone'. Perhaps Ben Jonson's bad taste is classic, while Eugene O'Neill's is--well, the Boston censors have their opinion, it seems...