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Alexander Nevslcy (Mosfilm Studios) puts back into circulation famed Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein, after six unproductive years that followed his ill-starred trip to Hollywood in 1930-32. All Russian pictures are advertisements for the U.S.S.R. This one is no exception, but it shows, not the handiness of modern peasants with mowing machines, but the first faint stirrings of Russian social consciousness, circa 1242 A.D. Fortunately, for U. S. audiences, even this patriotic ferment occupies Director Eisenstein's attention only for a few minutes at the beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities...
...panorama. If the Russo-German engagement in Alexander Nevsky bears no resemblance to the one actually fought at Lake Peipus on April 5, 1242, it is also like no battle ever before recorded on celluloid. For visual splendor, romantic nonsense and pure comic-strip flamboyance, the derring-do of Eisenstein's moujiks with battle-axes, boat hooks and wine pails has never been topped...
This sequence, rather than the concluding victory celebration, which can be construed as a warning to Hitler, probably caused Joseph Stalin to make his debut as a movie critic at the Moscow premiere of Alexander Nevsky last year. Dictator Stalin hit Eisenstein on the back, roared, "Sergei, you are a true Bolshevik...
...Sophomores who have had their scholarships renewed are Wiley F. Barker, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; John A. Bradshaw, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Roger E. Clapp, Indianapolis, Ind.; Irving M. Clark, Jr., Bellevue, Wash.; Julian C. Eisenstein, Warrenton, Mo.; Thomas L. Eliot, Winnetka, Ill.; Charles E. Feazel, Jr., West Monroe, La.; Robert D. Forsberg, Hudson, Ohio; Max D. Gaebler, Watertown, Wis.; John W. Goddard, Indianapolis...
...Czechoslovakian border, Field Marshal Hermann Göring had reportedly massed 200,000 men; from Salzburg, military highways were being feverishly constructed, and the railway to Eisenstein on the Czech frontier was being double-tracked. General Göring bragged at Nürnberg that private industry on the Rhine was crippled, so heavily had he drafted workers to rush completion of the Siegfried line. Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were...