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While Berlin waited for Molotov to appear (and Moscow denied he was going), Germany's Dr. Karl Clodius was in Bucharest pressing Rumania for more oil-and reinforcing his arguments with showings of hair-raising motion pictures of the German conquest of Poland. In the face of this pressure...
Yet the Finns did not despair or complain. The one thing in their country that seemed unimpaired was their sisu (in American: guts). Where the softer Liths and Latvians and Estonians had scared out cheaply, the Finns had once again proven their durability and burnished their national honor. They had...
For one act, "Margin For Error" rips along and then settles down for a second act of harangue and occasional laughter while the consul's death finds a solution. Spotted here and there with good humor, the play is still far and away beneath. "The Women." The wit is always...
On Sept. 1, when Hitler marched into Poland, Leonard Lockhart stumbled home, huddled by the gas fire with his wife, brooding over the horrors of war, over "boys on barbwire having their guts shot out." Then, half-drowned with reminiscent terror, he went to bed.
Though Clark Gable taught Vivien Leigh to play backgammon, and never won a game from her, they were not the best of friends. Director Fleming and Cinemactress Leigh differed over the interpretation of Scarlett, to which Fleming wanted to restore the "guts" he thought George Cukor had taken out of...