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Before the War a Jewish tailor is shown at his wedding, his friends crying Mazeltov ("Good luck"). A Frenchman picks up a pretty girl, takes her to a shooting gallery. A Briton awaits the birth of his son. A Negro tap-dances in a Paris music hall. A German cabinetmaker watches his son play with a toy cannon. This cannon fades into a real one and War begins. After a battle the Jew, the Frenchman, the Briton, the Negro and the German find refuge, one by one, in an abandoned dugout between the lines. They make friends, lose their race...
...Before long he is up to his old tricks with a nightclub charmer, ingenuously informs his wife of the fact. Marcia vindictively arranges a weekend party composed of 1) the nightclub charmer; 2) an ex-mistress of Warren's whom he has fobbed off on a fortune-hunting Briton; 3) the Briton; 4) the ex-mistress's ex-husband, with whom Marcia, as a finishing touch, stays away overnight. Warren first thinks of divorce, then of mending his ways...
...Green Bay Tree* (by Mordaunt Shairp; Jed Harris, producer) is an appallingly sharp study of a middle-aged Briton who does not like girls at all and his adopted son who does not like girls much. Ballyhooed as a daring exploration of male homosexuality, done boldly in London last January, it has been purged by Producer-Director Harris of its sexual psychopathy. Now it ostensibly embroiders only the spiritual dependence of an older man on a young man in his own sybaritic image, the boy's sensual dependence on the luxuries the older man supplies. James Dale plays...
...exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers, Inc. to market through cigar-stores. A new firm called Stuart, Briton & Co. has Sandy Macnab Scotch whiskey. Scions of the Hotel McAlpin family have Smirnoff vodka and other liqueurs which they will make under patriarchal Vladimir Smirnoff's direction in a factory at Bethel, Conn., hometown of the late great P. T. Barnum...
...placard around her neck reading "I have offered myself to a Jew" and pinned the plaits to the placard. Until after midnight the girl was dragged from cabaret to cabaret, forced to stand on the stage of each while she was made the butt of vile abuse. No Briton in any of the cabarets was so foolish as to challenge the Storm Troopers at the time but scores of Britons wrote scorching eye-witness letters next day, thoroughly scared the Municipality of Nuremberg which looks to tourists for revenue...