Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (20th Century-Fox) is a sincere but misguided attempt at an unusual, simple, beautiful movie. The basic idea is good: to let a family play host for a day to a soldier, previously unknown to them, and to let nature take its course. Such a story might be told in as many different ways as there are families, and soldiers. There is certainly no reason why the family should not be a poor one, so that the Sunday Dinner involves sacrifice and anticipation; or why there should not be a marriageable girl (Anne Baxter...
...sphere. "In the 20th Century," he wrote, "man for the first time in the history of the earth knew and embraced the whole biosphere. . . . That mineralogical rarity, native [i.e., pure] iron, is now being produced by the billions of tons. Native aluminum, which never before existed on our planet, is now produced in any quantity. The same is true with regard to the countless number of artificial chemical combinations newly created on our planet. Chemically, the face of our planet, the biosphere, is being sharply changed by man.... New species and races of animals and plants are being created...
...filed an application aimed at forcing the big distributors to sell their theaters within three years, Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate, made last summer, has shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run houses, it has yet to appear on Broadway. thus parting the golden circle. But the final breakthrough will depend on the independents themselves...
...Goldwyn's The Princess and the Pirate, made last summer, has shown in many a U.S. tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run house, it has yet to appear on Broaway...
...found the meaning of life in the love of God. They did not frown upon card-playing, dancing, flashy clothes and the sexual appetite as evils in themselves, but because the love of God permitted no rivalry. They affirmed the doctrine of human depravity. But it remained for the 20th Century, uncovering the raw materials and forces of human life and making a cult of the uncovering ("as though there were some virtue in returning from modern plumbing to surface drainage"), to reaffirm the doctrine of human depravity without a gospel of redemption...