Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium of entertainment, the cinema's development has been fast if faulty. As a means of recording history, its development has been practically negligible. Outside of THE MARCH OF TIME and exceptional newsreel shots, the cinema has largely failed to record most of the great events of the last decade. Last week, the simultaneous release of two documentary films served to suggest the possibility that the cinema in general might at last be waking up to its non-fiction possibilities...
...whose Spanish Earth was the best documentary film of 1937, and whose trip to China last year was financed by screen and literary celebrities like Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett and William Osgood Field. Equipped with an accompanying commentary written by Dudley Nichols and recited by Actor Fredric March, The 400,000,000 sets out to show that China not only deserves to win its war but has a chance to do so, reaches a climax with the Chinese recapture of Taierhchwang...
...London last month, Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman went into court to claim a legacy of ?500 left to the Oxford Group, of which he is founder (TIME, March 6). Last week the Hon. Mr. justice Sir Charles Alan Bennett ruled the legacy invalid. Grounds: lack of proof that the Group existed. Dr. Buchman's counsel, asked by the justice whether anything happened when one joined the Group, had replied: "No, I think it is as invisible as joining the Church of England...
SOME LIKE THEM SHORT-William March-Little, Brown...
Twenty years ago a 25 -year-old Alabama War veteran named William Ed ward March Campbell went to work as a stenographer at $100 a month for the Waterman Steamship Corp. Shrewd, well-liked, he rose rapidly to traffic manager, then to vice president. But he was not happy in his job, and meanwhile he had been making a reputation in little magazines as a talented short-story writer. This fact, however, he kept a close secret from his business associates. His stories were published under the pseudonym of William March. His literary output and reputation, though not his literary...