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...year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious historical fact. MARCH OF TIME, with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more...
Charles Sparks Thomas is a prosperous Los Angeles cloak-&-suit merchant. He has never run for office or made a political speech, and never wants to. Until a few months ago, his closest brush with politics was a matter of geography; he was born next door to Bess Truman's girlhood home in Independence, Mo., 48 years...
...Canadian spy melodrama labored into the last act. Five months after it started to probe the cloak & dagger activities of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, the Royal Commission on Espionage last week summed it all up in a fourth and final report. All told, it had uncloaked 17 Soviet Embassy officials, and charged them with spying in Canada...
...news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire. By last week the disappearance from France of Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was firmly established as I'affaire Mufti. The man himself was a character straight out of a cloak-&-dagger novel...
Actor Richardson's Falstaff was very likely the best that this generation had seen. It caught the lustiness as well as the wit. Falstaff was indeed "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts" in the chambers of whose brain, as Hazlitt quoted, "it snows of meat and drink." Whether playing dead or playing the hero, making light of honor or rhapsodizing about sack, impersonating the King or embracing blowzy Doll Tearsheet (amusingly played by Joyce Redman), he rolled through the play, the greatest comic figure in English literature...