Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief interest of the April number of the Advocate is in the generous selection it prints from the Harvard entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people...
...city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they hated; they knocked him down, and standing round as he lay writhing in the dust, stoned him until his body was a bloody pulp...
...have aimed at a simplicity of interpretation; at presenting a Hamlet who is not an abnormal neurotic, but a young man, full of the zest for life, but ultra-sensitive to the shocks and disillusionments, caught in a particularly horrible and brutal set of circumstances." Thus the director of Maurice Evans' complete "Hamlet" has summarized her work; and thus, simply and directly, Miss Webster has expressed both the strength and the weakness of the justly celebrated production...
Although the story concerns the persecution of Jewish Dr. Mamlock, it is pointed at a greater purpose than racial equality. Behind almost every incident lies calculated Communist propaganda. Dr. Mamlock's removal from his clinic and his brutal treatment are minor themes which bind together a bitter denunciation of Nazi methods. Definitely meant for foreign consumption and as a guide to Communist technique, the picture is aimed to destroy the theory that Communists set the Reichstag fire and opposed the welfare of Germany. The moviegoer should note these pointed thrusts of propaganda, but pay greater attention to the artistic merits...
...Moto's Warning" comes too late-by that time the audience is seated. The shackling of Mr. Lorre to such over-sterile parts is as brutal as his own Oriental hari-kari...