Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toni Sender's grim bill of particulars stung the Russians hard. Cried Delegate Tsarapkin: "Filthy libel ... a dirty pamphlet supplied the State Department by a lackey union." When Miss Sender suggested that, to determine who was a liar, a survey be made of forced labor in all the United Nations, the Russian snapped: "Traveling in the Soviet Union is forbidden to haters of the U.S.S.R...
...help tell this somber story, Paramount has used the services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...
...Miss Tatlock's Millions. Hilarious comedy about two scoundrels who save a girl's fortune from her respectable relatives; with John Lund and Barry Fitzgerald (TIME...
...Class. The terrible human lesson that all three-Harrison, Kelway and Stella Rodney-have to learn is in the peculiar contemporary meanings of treason. Who is to be trusted, and why, and how far? It is appropriate that each of Miss Bowen's characters is engaged in secret work, for each is mysterious to the other. But before the end it is clear that each represents an important type of modern personality...
...Boston branch of the American Association of University Women will honor Dr. Helen Maud Cam at dinner tonight in the College Club. Miss Cam, Samuel Zemurray Professor of History, will discuss the topic "Women in Loyal Government and Youth Work in England...