Finsternis
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36. Flucht in
e eesasene
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Tines
Buffalo N I
Yov 1-31
Schnitzler'’s Swan Song
Wierd Story of Madnes.
Dennis' Mary Lee’’ Makes New Bid for Favor
ens
Tro
#Unrest in 1931° Not so Alarming
0U 1931
By ALAN NASH
Tlight Into Darkness,“ by Arthur Schnitzler; Simon schuster. 82.
Manhattan Side-Show'! by Kon¬
Simon and Schuster; 82.
rad Bercovici (Century) is filled
with great names but it is mediocre
THE'swan song of Arthur Schnitzler is athing of haunting horror.
alongside some of the author’s other
wörk.
strange and terrifying.
Published in the United States almost simultaneously with the
Sins of America—As Exposed by
death in Vienna of Austria’s greatest novelist and dramatist—and
the Police Gazette,“ by Edward Van ###
Every (Stokes), is a companion vol¬
aliterary figure of towering proportions far beyond the boundaries
üme to Sins of New Vork.“ Thomas
of his own country—his slim last literary testament makes no effort
Beer does the introdiition.
to ape that superlative sweetness with which, according to ancient
New York reviewer: are cheering
lustily for Clemence Dine's“ Broome
legend, the swan sings just before it dies. But" Flight Into Dark¬
age.“
ness'' is perhaps the most perfect in technique, the most far-reach¬
mon & Schuster irave just h
ing in psychological penetration of Schnitzler’s long list of novels—
ght out Arthur
sergst
each itself a masterpiece of technige and psychology—and earns
t novel, Flight Into Darkness.“
obert Ripley’s second Believe It
fairly a place beside the best of its predecessors.
or Not“ book is not as interesting as
the first.
T is the story of a man on the
Perhaps he killed her and left the
I dread threshhold of insanity and
it is a daring exploration into thej body in the woods. His disordered
imagination leaped upon the idea. Per¬
dark, phantom-infested abysses of a
gradually maddening mind. Here haps the body by now had been found
and police already were hunting him
Schnitzler calls upon his early medi¬
man that passes him in the
cal training to möve sure-footedly
street, he thinks may be a plainclothes
along the tortuous recesses of a de¬
policeman walting for him to make
ranged mentalitg, to elbow unafraid
some ineriminating sien.
the strange and awesome shapes that
And then there was the case of his
arise in the miasmid ##ench of decay¬
wife dead for ten years of a mysteri¬
ing sanity, and so weave about his
ous malady. He had been bored with
tale of terror a diabolic hypnotism
her, he recalls. And he is not at all
that will ralse goose-pimples and keep
certain that he didn't poison her.
vou under its spell until a pistol shot
Perhaps her body will be exhumed for
breaks it and furnishes a tragic de¬
evidence to accuse him as a Blue¬
nouement to the book.
Gazette
beard.
Niagara Fal 1s N T
DOBERT, back in Vienna from a
NEW terrors arise each day. He
IU prolonged vacation, while at¬
Nov 2-31
N decides he himself is perfectly
tempting to reassure himself before a
sane and that it is his brother who is
mirror that he does not look his 43
England’s Restoration
growing mad. And he knows that
years, notices that his left eyelid
England of the Restoration is
madmen very frequently think them¬
droops lower than the right. He be¬
sented in Arthur Bryant's King
selves in perfect mental health and
comes obsessed with the fear that
Charles the Second.?
suspect the sanity of others. So he is
this may be a symptom of approach¬
convinced that his brother, demented,
ing insanity.
has adjudged him insane and is
Charles in the tempestuous days of
For many gears—ever since as a
prepared to carry out the promise
exiie, Charles as king, maintaining a
young man he had seen a friefid sud¬
made gears ago.
denly stricken mad to be taken to
delicate balance of control over the
And Robert does not want to die.
an asylum and die—Robert had had
countfy, forms the core of the book,
He has just fallen in love again. The
a morbid dread of a similar fate. In
around which Bryant builds the de¬
marriage date is set. But he can not
order to prevent the living death of
stay in Vienna whiere he knows his
tails of the restoration period.
insanity he had extracted—-not with¬
brother is plotting either his death or
out difficulty—a promise from his
Throughout the story are found
commitment to an asylum. So the
evidences of Pepy's notations.
brother, a doctor and an authority on
actual flight begins. Shivering in the
An important book of the week 1s
mental disorders, a promise that he
fear of e chance encounter with his
Arthur Schnitzler's Flight Into Dark¬
wouid kill him in a painless way
brother, he flees terror-stricken from
ness.“ Schnitzler writes graphically
known to doctors“ if he ever exhibited
the city, a ghostly flight into dark¬
of a man's descent into madness. The
the slightest symptoms of insanity.
book is psychologically clear, and tells
ness, murder and death.
And he had given his brother a letter
a story that holds one with morbid
*
authorizing the murder for his pro¬
fascination.
tection if any prosecution should arise.
NILLIGHT INTO DARKNESS'—In
Also published this week at Gals¬
UThe B65f:“
the original Flucht in die Fin¬
worthy's new play,
AND now, he was afraid, the time
sternis’—is translated into English by
Roosevelt in the Rough,y Jack
A had come. But he wanted to be
William A. Drake who also was the
Willis; and Enterprise“by Harold
sure. He had to guard the drooping
translator of Schnitzler’s Daybreak“
S. Vanderbilt.
eyelid from his brother’s sight lest he
might too rachly keep the promise of and Theresa.“
Possibly there will be later Schnitz¬
years before.
Then was unleashed a flood of as-ler novels published poshumously
from fragments or hitherto unknown
sailing phantoms. He remembered an
That, of course, is
manuscripts.
assignation he had some time before
greatly to be desired, but the chances
with a girl he had loved on the shores
are that the 152 pages of Flight Into
of Lake Lucerne. He remembered she
Darkness“ are his last authentic and
had told him she was going to marry
complete work. If so they form a
another man. And he remembered
worthy last testament and serve to
he had come out of the woods to his
heighten the deep sense of loss occa¬
hotel alone. No actual parting could
sioned by the death of a master writer.
he remember.
box 6/3
d1
36. Flucht in
e eesasene
E
Tines
Buffalo N I
Yov 1-31
Schnitzler'’s Swan Song
Wierd Story of Madnes.
Dennis' Mary Lee’’ Makes New Bid for Favor
ens
Tro
#Unrest in 1931° Not so Alarming
0U 1931
By ALAN NASH
Tlight Into Darkness,“ by Arthur Schnitzler; Simon schuster. 82.
Manhattan Side-Show'! by Kon¬
Simon and Schuster; 82.
rad Bercovici (Century) is filled
with great names but it is mediocre
THE'swan song of Arthur Schnitzler is athing of haunting horror.
alongside some of the author’s other
wörk.
strange and terrifying.
Published in the United States almost simultaneously with the
Sins of America—As Exposed by
death in Vienna of Austria’s greatest novelist and dramatist—and
the Police Gazette,“ by Edward Van ###
Every (Stokes), is a companion vol¬
aliterary figure of towering proportions far beyond the boundaries
üme to Sins of New Vork.“ Thomas
of his own country—his slim last literary testament makes no effort
Beer does the introdiition.
to ape that superlative sweetness with which, according to ancient
New York reviewer: are cheering
lustily for Clemence Dine's“ Broome
legend, the swan sings just before it dies. But" Flight Into Dark¬
age.“
ness'' is perhaps the most perfect in technique, the most far-reach¬
mon & Schuster irave just h
ing in psychological penetration of Schnitzler’s long list of novels—
ght out Arthur
sergst
each itself a masterpiece of technige and psychology—and earns
t novel, Flight Into Darkness.“
obert Ripley’s second Believe It
fairly a place beside the best of its predecessors.
or Not“ book is not as interesting as
the first.
T is the story of a man on the
Perhaps he killed her and left the
I dread threshhold of insanity and
it is a daring exploration into thej body in the woods. His disordered
imagination leaped upon the idea. Per¬
dark, phantom-infested abysses of a
gradually maddening mind. Here haps the body by now had been found
and police already were hunting him
Schnitzler calls upon his early medi¬
man that passes him in the
cal training to möve sure-footedly
street, he thinks may be a plainclothes
along the tortuous recesses of a de¬
policeman walting for him to make
ranged mentalitg, to elbow unafraid
some ineriminating sien.
the strange and awesome shapes that
And then there was the case of his
arise in the miasmid ##ench of decay¬
wife dead for ten years of a mysteri¬
ing sanity, and so weave about his
ous malady. He had been bored with
tale of terror a diabolic hypnotism
her, he recalls. And he is not at all
that will ralse goose-pimples and keep
certain that he didn't poison her.
vou under its spell until a pistol shot
Perhaps her body will be exhumed for
breaks it and furnishes a tragic de¬
evidence to accuse him as a Blue¬
nouement to the book.
Gazette
beard.
Niagara Fal 1s N T
DOBERT, back in Vienna from a
NEW terrors arise each day. He
IU prolonged vacation, while at¬
Nov 2-31
N decides he himself is perfectly
tempting to reassure himself before a
sane and that it is his brother who is
mirror that he does not look his 43
England’s Restoration
growing mad. And he knows that
years, notices that his left eyelid
England of the Restoration is
madmen very frequently think them¬
droops lower than the right. He be¬
sented in Arthur Bryant's King
selves in perfect mental health and
comes obsessed with the fear that
Charles the Second.?
suspect the sanity of others. So he is
this may be a symptom of approach¬
convinced that his brother, demented,
ing insanity.
has adjudged him insane and is
Charles in the tempestuous days of
For many gears—ever since as a
prepared to carry out the promise
exiie, Charles as king, maintaining a
young man he had seen a friefid sud¬
made gears ago.
denly stricken mad to be taken to
delicate balance of control over the
And Robert does not want to die.
an asylum and die—Robert had had
countfy, forms the core of the book,
He has just fallen in love again. The
a morbid dread of a similar fate. In
around which Bryant builds the de¬
marriage date is set. But he can not
order to prevent the living death of
stay in Vienna whiere he knows his
tails of the restoration period.
insanity he had extracted—-not with¬
brother is plotting either his death or
out difficulty—a promise from his
Throughout the story are found
commitment to an asylum. So the
evidences of Pepy's notations.
brother, a doctor and an authority on
actual flight begins. Shivering in the
An important book of the week 1s
mental disorders, a promise that he
fear of e chance encounter with his
Arthur Schnitzler's Flight Into Dark¬
wouid kill him in a painless way
brother, he flees terror-stricken from
ness.“ Schnitzler writes graphically
known to doctors“ if he ever exhibited
the city, a ghostly flight into dark¬
of a man's descent into madness. The
the slightest symptoms of insanity.
book is psychologically clear, and tells
ness, murder and death.
And he had given his brother a letter
a story that holds one with morbid
*
authorizing the murder for his pro¬
fascination.
tection if any prosecution should arise.
NILLIGHT INTO DARKNESS'—In
Also published this week at Gals¬
UThe B65f:“
the original Flucht in die Fin¬
worthy's new play,
AND now, he was afraid, the time
sternis’—is translated into English by
Roosevelt in the Rough,y Jack
A had come. But he wanted to be
William A. Drake who also was the
Willis; and Enterprise“by Harold
sure. He had to guard the drooping
translator of Schnitzler’s Daybreak“
S. Vanderbilt.
eyelid from his brother’s sight lest he
might too rachly keep the promise of and Theresa.“
Possibly there will be later Schnitz¬
years before.
Then was unleashed a flood of as-ler novels published poshumously
from fragments or hitherto unknown
sailing phantoms. He remembered an
That, of course, is
manuscripts.
assignation he had some time before
greatly to be desired, but the chances
with a girl he had loved on the shores
are that the 152 pages of Flight Into
of Lake Lucerne. He remembered she
Darkness“ are his last authentic and
had told him she was going to marry
complete work. If so they form a
another man. And he remembered
worthy last testament and serve to
he had come out of the woods to his
heighten the deep sense of loss occa¬
hotel alone. No actual parting could
sioned by the death of a master writer.
he remember.
box 6/3