Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manila was bombed this morning at dawn by a force of Nipponese planes. Although, contrary to first reports, the Phillipine capital was not attacked in the first series of Japanese waves, it had been expecting the blow at any moment, and was not caught unawares...
...moment a hot guitarist, academically introduced as a "demonstrator of social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler, Pianist Alec Templeton, and the dogged panel of classicists. By that time the classicists more or less agreed: it would be all right for Manhattan's Station WQXR to broadcast blues...
...younger Janssen made his splash with Europe's great orchestras, was rated tops in playing Sibelius, by the great Finn himself. But when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony tried him in 1934, Janssen failed to click. He went to Hollywood, wrote the score for The General Died At Dawn, married Actress Ann Harding. For two years Janssen has carpentered music for Walter Wanger...
Charles Boyer is a past master of the smooth-talking, Continental style of love-making. He's been given cinematic chances to practice his technique on practically everybody from Austrian princesses to Hungarian dairy-maids. In "Hold Back the Dawn," he sets to world on an American school-teacher; his skill, incidently, is undiminished...
With some very effective acting especially on the part of Miss de Haviland as Hollywood's notion of what school-teachers are like. "Hold Back the Dawn" turns out to be one of the better pictures of recent months. It's well paced, mature entertainment...