Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinary depth and quality of this film render a coldly anylitical review impossible. Although it also has a masterful plot, perhaps the finest parts of "Grand Illusion" are a few individual scenes. For instance, on the eve of a German victory celebration, the prisoners give a revue and invite the German officers who are guarding them. In the middle of the show, Gabin hears the news the Allies have finally won this battle. He rushes on the stage, roars out the good news, and all the prisoners rise and sing the "Marsaillaise." The German officers stomp out, and Gabin...
...months later, in Xylotombou camp, at a Sabbath-Eve meeting of the youth training group, Abraham met Zahava. She, too, had been captured by the British in Haifa Bay, almost within touch of the Promised Land. She had been in charge of a group of Zionist children on the ship Theodore Herzl and had traveled to the coast with her Belgian parents' blessings...
...brilliant reception for Nanking's foreign diplomatic corps. The city was feverish with people in flight. Its main street swarmed with donkey carts, pedicabs, rickshas swaying under high-piled loads of furniture, straw baskets, boxes and bundles. In the railway station, refugees spent their New Year's Eve stretched out on piles of miserable baggage, waiting for trains that did not come...
...Svelte Eve Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie, sister of fellow-traveling Irene, arrived in Manhattan to start an eleven-week lecture tour on France's struggle for civilization (at some $500 a lecture...
...deeply earnest play, Forward the Heart is now & then a dramatic one. In the main roles, William Prince (The Eve of St. Mark, John Loves Mary) does well enough and Mildred Joanne Smith (St. Louis Woman, Set My People Free) very well. Yet Forward the Heart sharply fails. It mingles two such general problems as race and rehabilitation to produce the most special of stories-one that calls less for earnestness than intensity. It is a story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve...