Word: bryan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ulous makeup and fussy mimicry. The doctor spends most of his spare time trying to keep his strict, pious, headachy wife (Flora Robson) from nagging their high-strung son into a nerve clinic. When the wife agrees to employ an Austrian dancer-patient of the doctor's (Jane Bryan, with a phony Viennese accent) as the boy's companion, all their troubles seem about over...
...picture, directed by Edmund Goulding, does not owe its excellence to Paul Muni alone nor to be the moving story which it portrays. The entire east plays together well. Jane Bryan as the Austrian danseuse who falls in love with the lovable country doctor played by Muni, Flora Robson as his puritanical wife, Raymond Sebrin as their delicate child, and the tragically simple maid played by Una O'Connor: all combine to present a well acted production. Not one of them could really be given an ounce more credit than another. In addition to the acting, there is a genuine...
...that remained in Poland last week was aftermath: mopping up, repairs, the sorting of truth from falsehood. One truth reached Manhattan with a famed world traveler and free-lance photographer, Julien Bryan. That it was a truth no one could doubt, for Photographer Bryan had recorded it in grim celluloid and emulsion...
...There was no question," said Julien Bryan, "but that Germans slaughtered Polish civilians miles from military objectives. It wasn't a war against soldiers. It was a war against civilians. I arrived in Warsaw after most foreign correspondents had left. Each day I took a car, a camera, and an interpreter and drove out as near the front as I dared go. On September 15, two weeks after the invasion started, I went out to the suburbs on the German side of town...
...During World War 1, U. S. Secretaries of State Bryan and Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great...