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...Germans broke through Sedan was because Daladier had stationed all the Reds and Socialists in the army there so that they would be killed off first. At the beginning of the German advance the French soldiers turned. Five thousand had to be shot and 7,500 sentenced to Devil's Island before discipline could be restored. By that time the Germans had captured Sedan and were on their way to the coast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPIDEMIC KILLS OFF ITALIANS IN NICE, WAR CORRESPONDENT HERE STATES | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...Captain Caution", the B plus show, is a two fisted, two-gunned, two-sabered story of American shipping in the war of 1812, a minor American edition of "The Sea Hawk." There are the same devil-take-the-hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less slush than the Flynn-Marshall combine dished out. Victor Mature, the anthropoid from "One Million B. C." and Bruce Cabot spend most of the picture fighting like mad over a little minx named Losise Platt. Opinions differ as to whether Miss Platt is worth fighting over, but she can certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...doin's in them ruins when we come"). Determined to meet the hussy on her own ground, Ethel also swings her big, scarlet-clad body into the most massive cancan of the season. As the hussy, Negro Ballerina Katherine Dunham is a trim and flexible devil's advocate. Her dancers follow her through a series of jazz-heated formations. The accompaniment of one of them is true, improvised boogie-woogie by Pianist Sidney Tuscher of the hand-picked pit orchestra. Staged by the Russian choreographer George Balanchine, fellow Slav of Composer Duke (real name Vladimir Dukelsky), Cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Incidentally, a story about Snavely in the current Issue of a national weekly magazine says (1) that Snavely 'Is opposed to scouting with movies,' and (2) that he 'never voiced the charge that Duke used movie aid in 1935.' Our answer to these assertions are (1) the devil he is, and (2) the devil he didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

...with a pair of candles which, by order of the fire department, were enclosed in chimneys. In the darkened house Elsie Houston was something to see as she slapped a tom-tom, crooned incantations to Brazil's goddess Yemanga, to Ogum, the god of war, to Exu, the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choros in Manhattan | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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