Word: mayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fans who like their war paint thick, their war whoops bloodcurdling and their arson Technicolored, get their money's worth in this picture. Others may be as thankful as the settlers when the war is ended...
Readers of Walter Dumaux Edmonds' novel about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...
When unfriendly Indians are egged on by British Tories to burn Lana's cabin, her baby dies at birth. Homeless Gil and Lana go to work for plainspoken, horse-faced Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver). There is another Indian raid, and, just as the women and children are being put to the tomahawk, Gil, who has gone for help, returns with the Yankee-Doodling Continental Army...
...last 76 pages, covering the Sino-Japanese war, hardly do more than scratch the surface of the contemporary Chinese scene. But Moment in Peking, far superior to Author Lin's whimsical The Importance of Living, may well become the classic background novel of modern China...
...Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes...