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China is typified in a resolute old farmer named Ling Tan (Walter Huston). When war comes to Ling Tan's village, he does not choose to run. He meets the Japanese peaceably and with dignity-only to learn that dignity is no longer a human value. His son-in-law's fat old mother, his second son's wife, are raped and murdered. His three sons, and the wife (Katharine Hepburn) of one of them, join the refugees who, carrying parts of a dismantled factory on their backs, stream toward mountains a thousand miles distant...
...Knickerbocker Holiday (United Artists), a cine-version of the 1938 Broadway hit which delved deep into Manhattan's Dutch past in order to be thumpingly arch (in Gilbert & Sullivan style) about dictators, democracy, the masses, freedom of the press and young love. Cinemactor Charles Coburn plays Walter Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya...
...public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell to Donel was read aloud to women's clubs, schools, Rotary luncheons, radio listeners. Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston and the Treasury Hour scattered it over the networks. With frankly sentimental fingers, Father O'Brien had twanged a universal string...
...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim; TIME...
...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim; TIME...