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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Happy Breed (Rank-Universal) is Noel Coward's proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone. It tells the story of the lower-middle-class Gibbons family between Wars I & II. The film opens and ends with a fine Technicolor shot of the roofs of London. In the closing shot the roofs lie defenseless to the hell that is soon to crack them open. But by then, Coward has made clear how ready the people under the roofs are to endure the worst and to prevail against it. He shows this never through flat heroics, but through...
That is about all there is to the story. Comic relief and pathos are added by an acidulous grandma, a neurasthenic maiden aunt and an old wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news...
...Bird. The scrotum system does not work with birds, because it might cause supersonic disturbances during flight. Birds' testes must be "faired into" the neatly streamlined body. But many birds breed in warm weather, even though their blood may get hotter than 42° C (107.6° F). How do they do it? Have their spermatogenic cells learned to work at high temperatures...
Toxic ammo of the anti-fly movement is good new DDT, which will be sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...
Elections in the area of Arts, Letters, and Philosophy named R. B. Angell 2G, Margaret Breed 1G, Albert Merriman, Jr. 6G, and Alfred Schwarz 1G. Edward II. Addelson 4G and Raymond J. Dorius 3G were appointed...