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...rest of the line-up remains unchanged, with Rod Perkins and Don Geeson at end, Jim Waterhouse and Bob Merrill, at tackle, Gibby King and Jed Goldberg at guard, Ed Donovan at cen- ter, Wally Trumbull at blocking back, and Dick Warren at wingback...
Berlin had its own explanation of the pockets where German fighting men had been encircled: they were advanced cen ters of resistance which would soon be come alive...
...number and ingenuity of the population. A nation of clever and ambitious people with scant natural resources has but one recourse: it must sell its services by fabricating and transporting raw materials supplied by others. The economic history of Germany since the third quarter of the last cen- tury has been the history of a people consciously and steadfastly steered by their State to sell services. "We must export," recently said Herr Hitler, a legitimate heir to this tradition, "or die." In the rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history...
...singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar device had worked successfully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Cog d'Or, seemed ill-suited to the 18th Cen-tury Gluck, whom Isadora Duncan consistently referred to as the greatest of dance composers...
King of Burlesque (Twentieth-Cen-tury-Fox). When Warner Baxter, a promoter of strip acts who aspires to more artistic realms, buys himself a society wife (Mona Barrie), it is a foregone conclusion that he will not profit by the bargain. What is not a foregone conclusion about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman...