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Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing. They are dressed as Free Polish soldiers on maneuvers as they await Churchill's arrival. Their cover is blown when one of their number reveals the German uniform he is wearing underneath his disguise as he rescues a child from a potentially nasty accident. Much small-arms fire and much suspenseful running about ensue, well staged by the veteran director Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). There is a satisfying surprise ending that serves as a neat moral reckoning as well...
Much of the credit for this achievement should go to Fuller who, by directing his sophisticated, well-constructed piece with the accent on style and what he terms "the very, very small things," like inflection and timing, has put the final polish on the play himself. But a big portion of the applause should also go to Gerald Moshell, the Kirkland House music tutor and Fuller's partner in this crime, who has composed a score so suited to the lyrics in mood and meter that, as Fuller himself has said, "the words and music seem to have something...
...editors of the American were not especially crass people, and their newspaper was not especially sensationalistic for its time. The American's Titanic edition simply illustrated a central fact of journalistic life: front-page stories about dead Polish immigrants don't sell newspapers. The public wanted stories about its rich and famous heroes, not depressing death reports and unconfirmed rumors suggesting that the ship's crew might have kept a bunch of faceless illiterates with unpronounceable names below until just before the ship sank. So while the front page headlines trumpeted stories of Astor and his heroic pet airedale Kitty...
...write a colorless biography of a woman who lived through and participated in the French Romantic movement and the countless restorations, republics and revolutions of her century. Barry begins Sand's story by briefly tracing her paternal family tree through several genreations of imaginative but debauched French and Polish aristocrats. He continues to place Sand within a historical framework, interweaving the events in her personal life with those of the literary and political worlds which surrounded, shaped and frequently angered...
Roman Pucinski: The Polish alderman...