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...fairy tale The Snow Queen") by tramping Gardenville's streets on last winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark, sinister shape fashioned out of the moving void...
...ITALIAN TRAGEDY - Nicola Cu-ringa - Liveright ($2.50). The grim realities of a humble and emotional people engulf Peasant Giacomo as he returns from America to the poverty of his home in Italy during World War I. Clumsily told but rich in detail...
...morning of Thanksgiving Day a note of genuine alarm had crept into the newspaper accounts. Doom-voiced radio announcers rushed to their microphones as the strike spread to Detroit and Washington, as it threatened to engulf New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. And then, just as the nation rose from its Thanksgiving dinners, the strike ended as abruptly as it had begun...
...picture's end, abetted by a gentle old prowler (charmingly played by Barry Fitzgerald), Ernie is beginning to see daylight at last. War is soon to engulf him. There, and always he knows now, he will "fight with the man who will fight for a human way of life." Human Beings. On the whole, Writer-Director Odets has kept his sociology as subdued as the warring lights and shadows and off -screen sound effects which he uses so fondly in his first picture...
...first lines of the West Wall had come apart at a critical point, and he had no first-rate fighting men to cement the breaches. The might of Eisenhower's armies pressed in on him, threatened to engulf him at a dozen points, and he did not have the transport to shift his reserves (if any) to meet the worst of the threats...