Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pied Piper (20th Century-Fox) pipes sumptuous Monty ("The Beard") Woolley out of his wheel chair for the first time since he began playing The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Jan. 26) three years ago. The change is good for him. The belligerent old nanny goat turns into a very human portrait of a crotchety, kindly Englishman caught in France by the Nazi invasion. But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children...
...Piper Woolley is never quite sure how he came by all of them. He started with two: the son and daughter of a League of Nations official and his wife. After Dunkirk he agreed, with the massive reluctance of a club-bound, child-hating Englishman, to take them to England while their parents returned to Geneva...
Stalking gasoline trucks on their way to filling stations became a new East Coast game. Like rats after the Pied Piper, cars followed trucks up to filling-station pumps, drained out fresh supplies in an hour. Motorists lined up quickly in queues of 50 cars wherever gas was being sold. Each demanded his legal six gallons...
There were still too many sinkings. The Navy announced this week that twelve merchant ships were sunk last week. That brought the announced total of ships sunk in the Atlantic since Pearl Harbor to 150. Furthermore, a destroyer was lost off Florida-the 1920 four-piper Sturtevant...
...Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the materials of the tale are surefire...