Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Purple Heart (20th Century-Fox) was made behind locked doors, and in defiance of Washington officials who were soft-pedaling Jap atrocities. A few weeks ago, Washington changed its tune. Producer Darryl Zanuck* was urged to finish the film as soon as possible. Reason: it is a picture about Japanese atrocities, and Washington had decided to talk about the atrocities...
...more immediate interest, because of its imminent publication date, is "The Rough Roll" of the senior class. According to Editor J. E. Jackson, it will appear "shortly before March 20th." Jackson is an old hand at editing class books, having been responsible for the annual at Ohio Wesleyan University when he was an undergraduate. He has also had several years' experience with a commercial book manufacturer in Tennessee...
Gustav Holst: The Planets (Toronto Symphony, Sir Ernest Macmillan conducting; Victor; 8 sides). One of the best 20th-century English orchestral works, abbreviated (Planets Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are missing). Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
American novelists of the 20th Century have been much possessed by damnation...
Jane Eyre (20th Century-Fox) is a florid, somewhat disappointing cinemadap-tation of Charlotte Bronte's story about the long-suffering governess who finally marries Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), the melancholic and irascible squire with the mad wife. There is little success in capturing the Brontean intensity of atmosphere and of character which should have made the novel a natural screen romance. As Jane, Joan Fontaine is too often merely tight-lipped and pale-perhaps because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period...