Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleet, flexible second-grade melodrama, handled with habitual British know-how, Candlelight is further enjoyable for its three leading performances. Canadian Carla Lehmann, with her prairie voice, is about twice as American as the average U.S. screen heroine. James Mason, an English matinee idol new to U.S. cinemaddicts, suggests a welterweight Clark Gable. Walter Rilla, once popular on the German stage and screen, is perhaps the most satisfying portrayer of suave continental menace since the late Conrad Veidt...
Married. Lionel Atwill, 59, matinee idol of the '20s, now coasting along in Grade B cinema horrors (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man); and Mary Paula Shilston, 28. concert singer and radio writer; he for the fourth time; in Las Vegas...
...Germans as much as it delights the British. It means the kind of war he fought on the open desert of North Africa: careful, precise preparation, control of the air, a murderous blow with every weapon in the lockers of his armor. Eccentric, unorthodox, picturesque Monty is the military idol of his country...
...idol was Illinois' brilliant Negro sprinter, Claude Young of Chicago, who was aiming at the four-way triumph scored by Ohio State's great Jesse Owens in 1935. With the 100-and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump safely tucked away, the stubby freshman was leading by 30 feet in the 220 low hurdles when he kicked over the last barrier, lost his footing on the rain-drenched cinders, and fell flat...
...idol, old Marshal Pétain, himself a rebel in his younger days, dismissed it all as "witticisms." De Gaulle got his colonelcy at a reasonably early age (47), but that was poor comfort. Just before the Germans fell upon France, he wrote one last memorandum, warning of the danger in trusting to the forests around Sedan in lieu of proper defenses. Nobody paid attention. Frustrated, agonizingly sure of what was to happen, equally sure that he might have saved France, Charles de Gaulle went into battle...