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Britons who consider it unseemly to show emotion over human affairs can steam up quickly over fauna and flora. Especially birds. A wartime British movie, The Tawny Pipit (TIME, Oct. 6), pretty well proved that one rural village had almost forgotten the Battle of Britain for a fortnight in its excitement over the nesting drama of two rare specimens of Anthus campestris...
Broadway's new Macbeth is far from great tragedy. As Lady Macbeth, Flora Robson (Ladies in Retirement) merely lacks audacity and fascination. As Macbeth, British Cinemactor Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra, The Captive Heart) mauls the part and even does something to mar the play. His Macbeth is violent without being intense, neurotic without seeming imaginative; and taking Shakespeare's great lines in slow but unsure fashion, he strangles the poetry...
...cause of topography, meteorology and zoology, scores of ships, thousands of men, were swallowed by the Arctic. Sweden's Dr. Wulff, crossing the Greenland icecap with Rasmussen, became' too tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire...
Holiday Camp (British). Grand Hotel-ish comedy drama, featuring Flora Robson. Nothing exceptional, but nice easy entertainment...
...FLORA & FAUNA...