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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Liberal Union opens its film series tonight with the presentation of the J. Arthur Rank production "Great Expectations." Two showings of the picture will be held in the Fogg Art Museum...
...Shoes (J. Arthur Rank; Eagle Lion) is a lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands. Its theme is one of fiction's most moth-eaten: one must suffer...
Some individuals could go so far as to accuse a jealous Hollywood. This, too, is food for thought, because J. Arthur Rank has produced some truly great cinemas which to date have not been equaled by Hollywood...
Excuse the Hanging. When his half brother, Lawrence Washington, died in 1752, George lost the friend who had influenced him most. By Lawrence's will he eventually got Mt. Vernon; the Virginia Council and Governor Dinwiddie also gave him a job as adjutant and the rank of major which Lawrence had held in the militia. Two years later, the serious, acquisitive money seeker became the watchdog of a 350-mile frontier harried by French and Indians...
...young Washington that Freeman has exhumed will give many a superpatriot the twitches. Freeman knows that his portrait of a proud and selfseeking Virginian has ruthlessly kicked Washington, the Eagle Scout who could not tell a lie, off his pedestal for keeps. Most men of Washington's rank, writes Freeman, "considered him ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open...