Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their own. A Viennese girl said to me, "the Germans were bad, but at least they didn't tear out telephones and shash bath-tubs...
Saturday night wraps up the Boston showing of Maxwell Anderson's "Anne of the Thousand Days," starring Rox Harrison and Joyce Redman at the Shubort. "I Know My Love" continues at the Plymouth with the Lunts. Harvard Square's local thespians have imported Luise Rainer this week to spice up their production of Chekov's "The Sea Gull" at the Brattle Theater Company next to the post office. "Regina" winds up its Boston stay on Saturday also, as the Colonial sends this adaption of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" on to new territories...
Making a picture on prejudice is a very difficult procedure. And when a love story is mixed into the formula, the possible blunders are multiplied manifold. "Pinky" does not quite escape all of these mistakes and thus misses being a great picture...
...problem posed is that of a colored girl who is able to pass for white. she has been trained as a nurse in the north, and has fallen in love with a white doctor. When she returns to the South to escape the obvious complications of her attachment, she is bequeathed the estate of an old lady whom she nurses and later wins a court fight to gain possession of it. Her choice is between working among her people in the south, or going off with the doctor, who has pursued her, to start life anew...
...ring true. The courtroom scene in which Pinky bests the representative of intolerance is a bit too close to a sudden triumph of righteousness for comfort. Pinky's meetings with the doctor are probably the most weakening factors in the plot; especially in the final encounter, the conflict between love and principle is just too much for the actors to carry...