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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ilka Chase's first novel is the liveliest agitation of stamens and pistil since the last flowering of the night-blooming cereus. Like the heady perfumes of its heroine (a chrome-plated Manhattan cosmetician), In Bed We Cry derives its strength from a dash of civet. The plot is a triangle whose base is always broad, whose chief points are streamlined by agelessness...
...After a 130-mile dash in twelve days, Russian guns were shelling the city of Kherson from emplacements across the Dnieper...
Uncritical, without even a dash of Economics I, without a Robber Baron in a carload of The-Men-Who-Made-America, The Great American Customer deals only inferentially with the subject of its title, concentrates on the all-but-forgotten manufacturers and salesmen who supplied the U.S. customer's meager demands in the early days after Independence. But it is a plum cake rich in things most U.S. citizens never knew before about their forebears...
...second half of the bill is a little gem involving an American flier (male), a Russian officer (female), love (obviously), assorted spies, Gestapo agents, and platitudes, all seasoned with a dash of international good-will. It was hard to get down and harder to keep down...
These three episodes comprise Flesh and Fantasy. A dash of the supernatural, mild surprise endings and Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) are about all that they have in common. But polish and humor make them fairly entertaining...