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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were still there when Manila fell. They were interned in Santo Tomás prison. Shelley describes what followed as 21 months of "constant, oozing fear." She became a monitor of the women's room, a member of the sanitation committee, one of the detail which picked the weevils out of the cereal. Eventually transferred to another internment camp in Shanghai, she was repatriated with her husband aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm, in December...
Author Slobodkin has an artist's eye for significant detail and the kind of gossipy fluency that makes many women's letters easy reading. He has also managed to smuggle into print (suitably disguised) a verb seldom seen in polite English prose since Lady Chatterley's Lover. In fact, Slobodkin has assimilated himself so completely to the somewhat rancid life of his crewmates that some readers may feel that they have listened to a five-hour monologue by a seafaring stablehand...
...answer lies in Mielziner's versatility, resourcefulness, taste, feeling for detail. He may not have the creative power of such an old master as Robert Edmond Jones, the freshness of up-&-coming George Jenkins, the occasional witty elegance of Howard Bay. But he is seldom commonplace. To Writer Djuna Barnes his unique gift is "to lay age upon his settings," give them "a rich patina of occupancy...
...were puzzled by their fate. Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness, or of the hard working prosecution's meticulous attention to detail. The Nazis had never done things that...
Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality. Other attempts at authenticity of detail are equally rewarding. The apartment Don lives in-not too flossy and not too shabby-looks exactly as the interior of a remodeled Manhattan brownstone should look. Don's girl friend (Jane Wy-man), who also plays the role of a TIME researcher, seems qualified for the job: she is bright, courteous, indefatigable and impervious to rebuffs...