Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protesting against the expensively produced British movie Oliver Twist, J. Ar thur Rank's cinematic hot potato which the protests of Jewish groups had kept from U.S. screens (TIME, Oct. 4). A short time later, Berliners themselves protested in more destructive fashion at the movie's faithful portrait of Charles Dickens' "Jew Fagin," fence and brutal master of a gang of young thieves...
...imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed one of Eugénie's ladies, "quelle horreur...
Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...second feature, "Nanook of the North" has returned. This classic Robert J. Flaherty documentary of a generation ago still surpasses a lot of current professional films. The simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...
About 1930, on an impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...