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Meanwhile, in Paris, the swank Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysées was the scene of the biggest cinematic hullabaloo since the opening there of Hollywood's Air Force. The occasion: the first night of Ivan, Part I. Outside, would-be spectators created mob scenes comparable to those in Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World. Inside, however, the audience was sharply divided. Parisian sophisticates, perhaps not yet grown up to Eisenstein's post-sophisticated refurbishing of primordial cinema devices, booed and stomped and hissed at the all but Shakespearean intensity of the great static...
Other G.I.s demonstrated in Honolulu. In Paris several hundred paraded down the Champs Elysées waving magnesium flares and yelling "scab" and "slacker" at soldiers who declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...
...hometown again, the amateur company immediately put on three sellout performances ($1.25 top) in the municipal Playhouse Theater. Director Gweneth Lloyd, energetic Englishwoman who founded the Winnipeg Ballet in 1938, had three new productions in her repertory: Les Coryphées, inspired by Degas' paintings and set to Tchaikovsky music; Kaleidoscope, a suite of national dances; and Dionysos, a mythological affair. Like 15 other Lloyd ballets, including An American in Paris from the Gershwin score, these were choreographic originals...
Getulio's War Minister, General Pedro Aurelio GÓes Monteiro, forthwith ordered the Brazilian Army, seasoned by its recent expedition to the Italian front, into the streets with an imposing display of U.S. tanks, half-tracks and machine guns. In no time Vargas was out and Supreme Court Justice José Linhares had taken over the Presidency. A new, largely civilian Cabinet was formed. Two days later, the tanks rolled quietly back to their lairs. No one had been killed...
Home Front. In Tipton, Okla., Jess Grubb, home from the wars, spotted a man in a tree near his house, grabbed his gun from force of habit, captured an es caped German prisoner...