Word: confess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...
...until the spring of 1942 did Mrs. Stone confess. She explained that she had used the pen name Ethel Vance ("It sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid of") because: i) her daughter Eleanor (Baroness Perenyi) was then living in Czecho-Slovakia, 2) Husband Captain Ellis Stone was U.S. Naval Attache in Paris, and use of the Stone name might have been undiplomatic. But the new name had already become fashionable. A few weeks after Escape appeared, Mrs. Stone's father hired a negro cook. "Name, please?" asked Father Zaring. "Ethel Vance...
...follows the novel more religiously than its companion piece. Only minor characters and actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov, may be a little too hammy in his actions to suit an American audience, but his overacting detracts little from the film...
...them -who felt that this was not our war. We used to say that if the Soviets were wiped off the map it would be good riddance, and that the feeble, guilty old British Empire was not worth one American life. . . . Humiliating as it is, I am ready to confess that we were wrong and President Roosevelt was right. It was our war from the first...
...straining ears heard things which gave satisfaction. The Brüsseler Zeitung admitted: "Doctor Goebbels has told truths which may come as a surprise to many. But why shouldn't he confess that war has become the shoe which pinches?" Said the Frankfurter Zeitung: "We are only beginning to feel total war in the west. Home has unavoidably become part of the front...