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...attack begins. The opposing generalissimos launch their offensive catapulting skillfully-wrought missives from a secluded operating base. For ten days the bombardment continues. Attacks are met with desperate counter-attacks, flashes of individual heroism rival the instances of insubordination, sallies vie with sorties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GOD HAVE MERCY ON US!" | 6/6/1930 | See Source »

...characters of certain British officers in a front line sector-their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other-all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awarded | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...characters of certain British officers in a front line sector?their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other?all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 21, 1930 | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...theme of the play is the publicity given by law courts and the press to private sorrow. Major Morecombe, an aviator with a distinguished record for heroism during the war, is found dead in his study, evidently a suicide. Starting with the first clue, that his wife had been spending the evening of his suicide with her lover, the police, aided by the reporters, work up sensational motives to explain the act. At the inquest the coroner's court is filled with curiosity seekers who regard the proceedings as a thrilling show. "The Show" was first produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATISTS NAME LEAD CHARACTERS | 4/15/1930 | See Source »

...WITHOUT WOMEN?Under-sea heroism with the right touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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