Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winged Victory (20th Century-Fox), Moss Hart's crisply flamboyant salute to the Air Forces, comes to the screen substantially unchanged in cast, story and general feeling. Like the original play, it is as immaculately robust as if it had just stepped out of a barracks shower; indeed, it would gain considerably if it did not so often suggest a Boy Scout Jamboree. Like the original, too, it generates among spectators the sort of friendliness normally reserved for amateurs, since all of its male performers are Air Forces men and the profits go to Army charities. But every...
...Titians, Rubens, Holbeins, Daumiers, Utrillos and El Grecos. The house is virtually his office, and a dressing gown his usual business suit. "Billy," commented a friend, "probably spends more time in his bedroom than any other well person." The house is also the scene of dinner parties which are "cast as carefully" as his shows and which star Baruch, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Cole Porter...
...Radlo) is as good a piece of melodramatic 20-minute-egg sentimentality as the famous Double Indemnity (TIME, July 10). In some ways it is even more likable, for though it is far less tidy, it is more vigorous and less slick, more resourcefully photographed, and even more successfully cast...
Farewell is done to a fare-thee-well by everybody from the costumer to the excellent cast. Sets that should look threadbare have seldom looked so rat-ridden. The neon sign outside a crummy dive is almost too properly defective. There is an enthusiastic appetite for everything possibly sinister about a big city and its people. The makers of the film go farther with their realism: they try to make sensations and states of mind visual. Best: the drug sequence, presenting through double exposure an indecipherable web of confusion and dreamlike memory...
Directed by Hibbard G. James '45, the skits will feature the traditional "Upper Common Room Blues," with Miss Cathy McGuire and Miss Anna Prince, both Radcliffe '46, relieving the monotony of an otherwise all-male cast. Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, and Richard B. Schlatter '34, faculty instructor in History and Senior Tutor in Adams House, will also take part in the presentation...