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...phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect our international relations." Mr. Rice's disenchantment was complete. Crying that "freedom of expression" had been "stifled," he turned in his resignation...
...their adaptation with a pair of shears and a paste-pot. Yet no company but M-G-M bid for the book. It is as far from conventional screen material as a good fox-night from the sick air of a soundstage. Director Richard Thorpe has kept a newsreel vitality in his telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri, almost the whole of it out-of-doors. It is Lionel Barrymore's best part in years and a valid and vital contribution to current cinema. Some shots: Possums drowsing on a bough, hounds running down...
...week that most citizens would sympathize with the President's insistence on respect for his privacy and dignity. But on one score news photographers have repaid his past graciousness in full. Just as mention of his lameness in print is ordinarily avoided, so no Press photograph or cinema newsreel ever shows Franklin Roosevelt rolling in his wheelchair or walking awkwardly with the aid of his stick...
...photographers who originally beseiged Addis Ababa for news only a scant dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
...born in New York, attended Vassar, Columbia and the Roosevelt School of the Air, where she gathered material for the title poem in Theory of Flight. In his preface. Stephen Vincent Benet describes her as essentially an urban poet, her mind "fed on the quick jerk of the newsreel, the hard lights in the sky, the long deserted night-street, the take-off of the plane from the ground." The book contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque show...