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...under Red banners. Watching the listless demonstrators, one could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea where I can get some new shoes...
...Ah-then you are with us! Long live Markos...
Summer Holiday (MGM) is a musical version of Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's 15-year-old comedy of smalltown life in the Teddy Roosevelt era. In some respects, it is still fresh, for Director Rouben Mamoulian has attempted to follow on film the pattern he used on the stage with Oklahoma! Instead of unfolding in rigidly separated plot scenes and musical numbers, Summer Holiday was planned as a flowing synthesis of songs and dialogue...
...international labor get-together in Oslo, British Guest Mark Hewitson, M.P. for Hull, recalled some of the bonds between Norway and Britain. "As Ah look around your coontry," said Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads -refugees like-came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole...
...Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...