Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hour. In the dawn's early light, Bombay's police commissioner arrested Gandhi at the home of Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy...
...Pied Piper (Monty Woolley, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, Roddy Mc-Dowall, Peggy Ann Garner; TIME...
Later Pierre (Maurice Tauzin) falls in. A chance nose count by Pied Piper Woolley reveals that a towheaded Dutch waif named Willem (Merrill Rodin) is also with them. Says Woolley: "I am occasionally seized with the conviction that I am convoying guinea pigs...
...brush with the Gestapo nearly ends the Piper's tour, but, at least in Hollywood, Englishmen like Woolley always win through. His children's crusade, scripted by Producer Nunnally Johnson from Nevil Shute's novel of the same name, is too episodic for all-out drama, but it is a mellow, amusing, often moving excursion...
Good sequence: Woolley's last waif, the half-Jewish niece of a Gestapo agent, is brought to the dock for transshipment to the U.S. with the help of the Piper. She heils Hitler. Her Gestapo uncle reproves her. "Nicht mehr Heil Hitler?" she asks. "Nein," warns her uncle. "Gut!" says the solemn little girl...