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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quiet on the Western Front (Universal). When Carl Laemmle Jr. produced this picture in 1930, critics hailed it as one of the few great U. S. films. When Nazis burned the book by Erich Maria Remarque from which the picture was made, the film was revived, again stirred U. S. audiences with its simple record of why men go to war, how they kill, how those who survive spend the time until their turn comes...
Fortnight ago Universal Pictures hit on the idea of warming over All Quiet on the Western Front for the peace trade. The picture was still as fresh as a raw amputation. High lights of horror were still two severed hands clutching the barbed wire, Lew Ayres stabbing a poilu in a shell hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with...
When the revamped picture opened last week in San Francisco, result of such tinkering was almost as complete a disaster for All Quiet on the Western Front as even Nazis could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator, harshly sounding off in the worst tradition of Russian soapbox films, demolished each of the picture's high-voltage, moving climaxes as efficiently as if a 12-inch shell had ripped through the screen...
...million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...kidneys; in Manhattan. He had saved from drowning, fire and asphyxiation some 40 lives, mostly human, but including canine, feline, and one canary. Sometimes garbed in a straw hat with pipe in mouth, occasionally wearing a brown derby presented to him by Al Smith, Paddy Reilly would appear in front of the New York Public Library to raise funds for the Humane Society...