Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better themselves at the expense of others. . . . Meanwhile, looking on impotently was a great body of highly trained architects and planners visualizing rational and ordered plans for living. . . . Will the landowners with their often short-sighted and acquisitive outlook again be allowed to smash the ideas of our 20th-century Wrens...
Night Train (20th Century-Fox). Dumpy British Director Alfred Hitchcock set a standard for mystery films with The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes which the U. S. cinema industry has never been able to touch. Night Train and Blackout (TIME, Nov. 25) show that Hitchcock's departure for Hollywood before World War II failed to deprive the British cinema of its special bent for prolonging a nerve-racking state of suspense over an almost unbearable period of time...
Under that low ceiling Author Hutchinson flies the higher of the two. He does a sort of subdued version of Noel Coward's noisy Cavalcade, conducting an English clerical family through the first three decades of the 20th Century. Always a ready hand with the Gentle Soul beset by the Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily...
December 31, 1940, was not only the end of a year; it was the end of a decade -the most terrifying of the 20th Century...
Chad Hanna (20th Century-Fox). Chad is a stable boy in upper New York circa 1840. When Huguenine's One & Only International Circus comes to town, Chad joins it as roustabout. He takes a fancy to Albany Yates (Dorothy Lamour), the high rider, but marries Albany's understudy (Linda Darnell). He slugs it out in a free-for-all brawl with a rival circus, takes over the ringmaster's duties when Owner Huguenine falls ill, quarrels with his wife, leaves her, soon returns in contrition. That is about...