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...spirit of a year ago, that perhaps Elizabeth would understand him better. Perhaps it wouldn't all have ended like this, just a letter every now and then. He had planned every minute of it. The trip down to New Haven, the football special, the game and all the crisp excitement then dancing and a whole evening and a day to talk with...
...Brent and Stanwyck is always the same, but Geraldine Fitzgerald steals the show as a sensation-seeking British Lady. She wears a monocle and vamps her younger sister's fiance so convincingly that you envy him. The rest of the cast is made up of Gene Lockhart, Donald Crisp and similar prototypes...
...packed his bag with four crisp white suits, gathered up his books. If there had been time, he would have made his broadcast, a final appeal to America-an appeal for understanding from the world's last great bastion of freedom. But there was not time: The British Raj, intent on crushing the second Gandhi civil-disobedience campaign in World War II, was mad and tough...
...into the church. The photographers poised their flashlight bulbs. The parson's wife stepped to an oil lamp and held the mortgage contract over the chimney. In less than a minute, one of the tidiest church mortgages in the country (from a banker's viewpoint) was a crisp char of expensive ashes. The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles was free of debt, and the banks and other mortgagors owned $750,000 less of the more than $500,000,000 they now hold in U.S. church mortgages...
...Thomas Edison introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings of satire with Buster Keaton's portrayal of the Robinson Crusoe of a machine wilderness. The Society has planned three more performances for July 27, August 19, and September...