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...Pimpernel plus Superman. In his bearing and behavior, small (125 lbs.), stooped Mosby resembled a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Superman. Against the enemy his unvarying rule was to do what was least expected of him. When he rode, his cape "was turned back always in a flow of scarlet. A curling ostrich plume extended over his shoulder from a gray felt hat, and at each side hung a large Colt revolver, suspended in holsters well studded with brass." He was always kind to women & children...
...captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned up in London, while his Italian traveling companion went on to General Eisenhower's headquarters in Algiers...
Mister V (Small; United Artists) will not fool even the dunces in the back row. Its producer-director-star, airy Leslie Howard, played the same leading role seven years ago in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Then he was an 18th-Century English lord, airily rescuing French aristocrats imperiled by the Revolution; now he is a peripatetic British archeologist, airily saving scientists from Hitler...
...days later police thought they had found the car in a garage. They hid near by, but the "Scarlet Pimpernel" who came for the car shot it out with them, fatally wounded Caen's police chief, escaped again...
Bearing a name less romantic but doing a work just as effective as that of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the British Committee for the Care of Children from Germany last week continued its effort to get 75,000 Jewish children under 17 out of Nazi clutches. The committee found temporary shelter for 500 waifs in a holiday camp, will teach them English and try to find them (and others yet to come) permanent homes...