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...twelve-day round of caviar and vodka, of toasts and talks, came to an end. From Moscow shrewd little Dr. Eduard Benes rode a special Soviet train to his liberated homeland...
Confusion is the keynote of a plot that includes larceny, blackmail, multiple murder, and the whodunit show's inevitable quota of hardboiled--romance. Director Eduard Dmytryk has handled this turbulent story, with its emphasis on strangulation, cudgeling and other more ingenious forms of violence, with good taste extraordinary for Hollywood...
President Eduard Senes was saying hail and farewell last week. He was saying hail to Czechoslovakia, to whose liberated areas he, his wife and more than a score of his ministers and aides were returning after six years in exile. He was saying farewell to the cabinet in exile. He also promised the homeland a new Government...
...copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William Allen White, Eduard Benes. Unlike most Utopian outlines, Looking Backward presented a concrete program for the modern world...
...scene is a workers' club in a slum rife with Jack-the-Ripper murders; the stranger is an egotistical, foreign-born young cobbler (Eduard Franz) who is suspected of committing them. But from the outset he is made to seem so guilty that you never for a second doubt his innocence. Hence there is little suspense. With all the murders occurring off stage, there is even less excitement. And for all the flaring gaslight, there is no disturbing atmosphere. The play's long suit, indeed, is talk. But the orating of the workers, the gabbling...