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...being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer as a renegade monk give performances that one can appreciate without an adequate story, and the picture's coloring guarantee it the box-office success it would not receive had it been produced in the customary black and white. Technicolor is both the strength and weakness of the "Garden of Allah". It is responsible...
...Hastings, Mich., scorning current attempts to pile thousands of matches on top of beer bottles as "mere child's play" (TIME, Dec. 28), Newsboy Elmer ("Monk") White inserted a match in a cork, stood the match up on a table, laid two yardsticks at right angles on the cork, balanced 36 beer bottles on the yardsticks...
...seems so helpless in doing anything about it that he gives the impression of being a little feebleminded. Still stranger are their two children-round-faced, mindless, cheerful little Sophie; contemplative, mature, intuitive little Armand, who occasionally gives voice to gnomic philosophy, sees visions, hopes to be a monk. Enduring insults because of her dark skin, money troubles and sickness with the children, Renée gets this pair across France while her husband is transferred to a post still deeper in the tropics...
...understand these monomaniacs, her trials are increased when her husband deserts in an effort to rejoin her. Just why Captain Pierre chooses this difficult way of getting back to France. Author Hutchinson does not make clear, but the trip involves disguising himself as a monk, a corpse, a laborer. By the time Pierre reaches France the Germans are advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German troops. He finds Armand mad, his wife...
Biggest football crowd the East ever saw (102,000) packed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium to watch Army v. Navy. Navy tacklers piled into Army's scrawny little star, Monk Meyer. Army linemen saw to it that Navy's ace dropkicker, Bill Ingram, never got where he could perform his specialty. Late in the last quarter, the break of the game came when, climaxing a Navy march of 50 yards, Ingram passed to Fike and Army's Sullivan, trying to abort what looked like a touchdown, spoiled the play by bowling into Fike. The field judge ruled...