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...begins with a greying head nurse (Irene Dunne) waiting in a London hos pital for the return of her son from the disastrous Dieppe Commando raid. While she waits, the picture slips with a loud grinding of gears into the flashback that takes up most of the film...
...A.A.F. system gives every soldier a sense of continuous progress, leaves no room for developing a feeling of hopelessness. A man who has lost an arm may be told by the nurse on the plane back from Africa just what an artificial limb can do for him. In the hos pital he will start learning to use the appliance and begin studying a new vocation, civilian or Army. A one-armed pilot who is to become an instructor will have started learning how to teach before going to a Redistribution center for assignment to more schooling or duty...
Stocky Vanique (he looks like a young John Garner) is prepared to spend two years among the Moriegos, Cara Preta and Chavantes Indians, some savage and hos tile, some half-civilized. His frontiersmen must chop out clearings for future Brazilian towns, must fight pumas, oncas (panthers) and the tamanduá, a giant ant-eating bear with a head and neck like a horse. They must convince Indians that an influx of settlers will be good. Be cause Brazil has a law prohibiting the use of firearms against Indians (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941), only the party's official hunters will...
...Surreys, sulkies, buggies, phaetons, tally-hos, Meadowbrook carts, buck-boards, tandems, victorias and broughams are sell-outs at high prices...
...Seattle Symphony and the audience were much impressed. They were also impressed by the fact that the rich, gouty, opinionated, convivial conductor is one of the world's half-dozen best, and by his uninhibited performance: his hisses and shouted "Hos" (for loud passages), his spectacular wind-ups, his devotion to the reeling & writhing & fainting-in-coils method of conducting...