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Long Live Blimp-But in the Daily Mail, thin-skinned Ward Price devoted an entire outraged column to the picture of Blimp's life: "To depict British officers as stupid, complacent, self-satisfied and ridiculous may be legitimate comedy in peacetime, but it is disastrously bad propaganda in times of war. ... In such times as these, when the respect and confidence of other countries are of vital importance to us, we cannot afford to put out a burlesque figure like this Colonel Blimp to go round the world as a personification of those British officers who . . . gave...
...cameras swept the Charles last spring and immortalized the Varsity crew on celluloid, has Harvard gone Hollywood, but technicians, photographers and directors have just picked up paraphernelia after completing a short film for RKO on the Harvard Chaplain school. Second in a "This is America" series, the short will depict the work of the average chaplain...
First picture in the series was "Private Smith", the diary of the average soldier; as a companion piece the chaplain film will depict the typical "skypilot" as he tends to the needs...
Painted during one of Europe's most war-torn centuries (the 17th), these 70 old Dutch masterpieces are as placid as a cow pasture. They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...
...sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime. They mistook the riveter for a gangster...