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...mission" through Germany from the south up to Mannheim. These sequences, actually filmed in Germany, provide a vivid picture of towns and people gutted by war. The attitudes with which Germany met defeat are typified by the characters Happy encounters. There is a corrupt SS sergeant having his last fling in a sordid military brothel, an attractive girl turned to prostitution, a Prussian general who uses the noose to maintain discipline to the last. These characters, against a background of bombed out and burning buildings, give a most effective impression of stark, demoralizing realism. Happy takes it all in with...
...time of year for critics to begin throwing bouquets at Hollywood instead of barbs. "Ten Best" lists are as thick as westerns, and every '51 film is being dissected to find its good points instead of its bad. Not to be outdone, we have a few flowers to fling ourselves...
...Christian Gauss, 73, author, teacher and scholar, who as a wise and witty dean (1925-45) and professor of languages and literature (1905-45) helped bring up three generations of Princeton men; of a heart attack; in Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. At 20, he left his native Michigan for a fling in Paris as an aspiring poet, soon returned home to teach, was brought to Princeton by President Woodrow Wilson in 1905 as one of the university's first group of preceptors. A devoted student of the classics and a student of the noisy world outside the college gates...
Postwar German art is having a fling at surrealism, abstractionism and expressionism (TIME, March 26), but what the Berlin critics liked best about the American show was the modern realism. Wrote one critic: "The most interesting American artists to us Germans seem to be those whose convictions are most different from those of the School of Paris [Picasso, etc.]" Singled out for special cheers: Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth...
...Imperium (M-G-M), Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza's first movie, was shelved until his second, Strictly Dishonorable, could introduce him to the screen (TIME, July 23). Now moviegoers can see why. The film shackles Pinza and Lana Turner to the story of an incognito King's fling with a nightclub cutie from the U.S.-a situation enfeebled by long service in Ruritanian farce and operetta. Basso Pinza sings three numbers predictably well; Actress Turner sings a couple predictably. But only the Technicolor looks good in Mr. Imperium...