BEWARE OF PITY—Stefan Zweig—Viking ($2.50). Once upon a time a strong young man found a crippled old man lying in the road, who asked him for a ride on his back. Out of pity the young man obliged.

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 ...