Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember the Day (20th Century-Fox) is a belated bow to the public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...
Dragon's Teeth is the third and best volume in Upton Sinclair's rich cyclorama of 20th-Century world history (World's End, Between Two Worlds, TIME, June 24, 1940 & March 24). It is the first to suggest that the completed work may, for all its lack of psychological and esthetic depth, be almost great. Great or not, few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as humane...
...world politics," he says, "is incompatible with unity and order in world business and world civilization. One or the other must go." He also sees an even more important fact-that "the central issue of World War II is not the issue of whether the world of the 20th Century shall achieve political unity. It is the issue of who will build that unity, on what foundations and for what purposes...
...20th Century-Fox stopped production on Pearl Harbor Pearl, got Secret Agent of Japan ready for instant production...
Rise And Shine (20th Century-Fox). Jack Oakie is back in the lineup. His cleats haven't scuffed a gridiron since he won his last P at Paramount a decade ago. Those were the days of the great Paramount teams, starring such rugged individuals as Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian. Now a tubby 38, Oakie turns out to be the back-of-the-year at his new alma mater...