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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulletin takes this opportunity of informing alumni that Charlton David Pierce, who graduated from the Academy in 1934, is cashing checques on banks where he has no accounts and is otherwise seeking to raise money under false pretenses amongst Exeter alumni. To do this he is also misrepresenting the interest and responsibilities of the Academy and Dr. Perry in his concerns. It would appear that Pierce, unfortunately, is not to be trusted in financial matters...
...Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button...
...very good refutation of the author's criticism appeared. The question outlined a certain situation and then desired to know what violations of safety rules were present. This is a practical and interesting way of asking for information. The editor mentioned navigation but forgot spotting, mooring board, and strategy amongst other parts of the course which are strictly practical. He neglected to consider that the laboratory periods emphasize the practical aspects of previous instruction...
...Fell." It is essentially an analysis, a dissection of Teta Linek, the gnarled servant woman of pre-auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their culture and education were stamped out under the swastika, this sextagenarian could face the future with calmness. For she had purchased a seat amongst the blessed by educating a nephew for the priesthood--and there was nothing to do but await the call to a sure place in heaven...
Second feature, British National Films' "Blackout," is an exciting, improbable yarn full of Nazi spics and modern Mata Haris. This bit of propaganda carries all the suspense of Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," but it loses a good bit of punch by splitting the male lead amongst Conrad Veidt, the Union Jack, and Denmark's national anthem...