Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying nursing. In her home town, she is first terrified, then furious, at the treatment she gets as a Negro. It is not long until she comes close to being robbed by a fellow Negro, and raped by white men. Torn between running back North to her white doctor fiance (William Lundigan) and devoting her life to educating Negro...
Thieves' Highway (20th Century-Fox) is a flashy, second-rate film with a simple, violent story. On his first haul, a fruit trucker (Richard Conte) foils some market thieves, avenges a robbery of his father, sells his apples at a profit and gets the girl. The movie makes no pretentions to anything but entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck...
...truth came out with a minor bang: PEER'S NEPHEW AS FACTORY HAND. Proletarian Mr. Green, it seemed, was simply the pseudonym of socialite Mr. Yorke. After writing most of his first "Henry Green" novel, Blindness, while a schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally...
Last Gasp. In Loving, the first Henry Green novel to be published in the U.S. and perhaps the best of his seven, readers will see for themselves just what the "rudimentary" trap of blended yearning, lust, selfishness and self-sacrifice, i.e., love, looks like in the hands of an experienced man with a musical ear, an impressionist painter's eye, and a poet's obsession with life's hidden undercurrents and emotional mysteries...
Gold Veins. Belowstairs, Albert, the 'prentice footman, is sick with love for-Housemaid Edie, who is herself pining for First Footman Charley Raunce. "I love 'im, I love 'im," she cries to Housemaid Kate (who is obsessed by the mere idea of being in love). "I could open the veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert...