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Bataan's scenery is "realistic" down to the last carload of tropical foliage-and its drama is constantly loud and overemphatic. But there are a few stretches when the military situation calls for silence, the noisy sound track quiets down and, for a moment, incredibly enough, Hollywood's war takes on the tense, classic values of understatement...
Posing as a Flemish worker on vacation from Danzig, Artist Hélion next boarded a train to Cologne, got through two examinations of his false papers, mixed with a friendly carload of Nazi soldiers. He sneaked across the border to Belgium Then by stealing rides on trucks, Hélion reached the French frontier, crawled through vegetable gardens at dusk, evading patrols, and reached Paris...
...even a snappishness, were filled with pleasantries and good humor. Asked for his reaction to Wendell Willkie's report to the nation, to which he had listened over the radio, the President replied, with less than his occasional obliqueness, that there wasn't a controversy in a carload of speeches...
...have been preparing for this for a long time and now the time has come to quit practicing and start doing! At dawn tomorrow we are going in and land United States Marines by the carload onto the Jap-held Solomon Islands!!! And I hope the Jap Fleet comes to the rescue, because we'll land all over them...
...getting-and keeping-burlesque in barracks required a musicomedy plot too complicated to explain and too silly to bother about, Lindsay & Crouse never stopped to worry. They tossed in gags-their own, burlesque's, the Army's-by the carload. They waded waist-high in corn. They piled Pelion on Ossa, and Minsky on the War Department. They plundered burlesque for all it was worth-strip teases and straight men, the "elephants" and the "grind"-and then brazenly parodied...