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New angles on great old subjects by no means necessarily improve a movie. Still, it would have been interesting to know, in a little more detail, just why these Southerners felt so contrary; what their neighbors thought of them (and vice versa); what their relations were with the Yankees ; and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Chinese women were taking the blast in their dainty stride. Some even openly agreed. Said a pretty 23-year-old whose fiance had deserted the army to marry her-then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Offensive | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

No Orchids was about U.S. gangsters, all right. British Author Rene Raymond, whose bestseller of the same title had sold a million copies, had never been to the U.S. He had, however, read a lot of U.S. pulps, and his dialogue tried to catch the tone faithfully. Samples from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Why, John! | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

An Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Courtney Burr & Lessor H. Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Wilde takes the girl away from her dull, suave fiance, and marries her on a boat going to the Argentine. But only half an hour of the show has passed, and it is obvious that something is going to break up the happy marriage. What, if not the hero's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/8/1947 | See Source »

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