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...JANET FLOWER Gresham...
...happy in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world." The golden night of Helen Keller will probably in the long run outshine the limelight she has lived in. Like the "golden flower" of the Chinese contemplatives, her experience has been a redoubtable witness to a doubting age that when other helpers fail and comforts flee, the help of the helpless abides. The Unconquered, her technically awkward but moving film biography, therefore quite suitably presents itself as a sort of modest footnote to The Lives...
Marriage Penalty. All workers' mail is censored, and love letters are frequently destroyed. If, by any chance, a romance should flower under these adverse conditions, company officials usually do not allow the newlyweds to live together, may even transfer one spouse to a distant factory. The pay of both is often reduced "because of decrease in efficiency...
Yellow and Raspberry. Ferdinand escapes Sergeant Matthew by becoming "Master of the Horse" to a French magician and his assistant, a lady named "The Flower of San Francisco." ("He sawed off my head every evening . . ." recounts the Flower, "and two matinees besides Rrr! . . . Rrr! . . . The blood flowed down to the orchestra . . . The spectators would faint!") But by this time Ferdinand has almost decided that the trenches of Flanders are safer and cozier than the walks of Lambeth...
Director Sweeney, who toured the country to make his selections in person, favors abstract art, and the scattering of representational pictures in his exhibition looks almost as out of place as dogs at a flower show. But Sweeney carefully points out that the exhibition is not meant to be a cross section or to indicate a trend...