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About Face (Warner) adds lustrous Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes...
Asked if the Soviet dictator would be walling to resort to war to accomplish his expansionist ends, Kirk alluded to Stalin's many outstanding accomplishments and said that he has a "strong sense of history." Although he is under pressure from ambitions military advisors and theorists. "I think he's too prudent for that." Kirk stated. "Besides, he's 72, and even for a Georgian, that...
Regarding the current balance of power, Kirk said. "We can't deal with these fellows when we're weak, in a military sense. They understand superiority. They won't talk until they're persuaded that we have enough force to make our voice heard...
Life behind the Red curtain is restrained and regimented, according to Kirk. Political education begins very early among children. The control of information by the Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation "comes close to the fantastic control (described in) that book '1984.' And I think a great deal of it sticks," he added...
...secret police are everywhere," he said. There are unknown informers in every factory, ship, farm, army unit. It has reached the point where the people are afraid to express opinions, except to expose deviation of others. "But," Kirk remarked, "the more uneasy and unhappy the people are, the more secure the leader...