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Chaplain: Well, sir, it's not exactly in the realm of theology to pray for something that would help to kill fellow...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
Gradually and uneasily, however, they approach and finally achieve a meeting in the realm of normal human temperature. They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...other side of India, northeast of Calcutta and south of the realm of the Bong of Wong, the Maharaja of Manipur celebrated his coronation-three years late. Because of the Japanese threat to India, he had postponed the ceremony. Taking to wife a third "wartime" bride on the advice of his high priest (three wives can better rule a ruler's heart than two in time of crisis), he had decided to wait patiently for the Japanese to go. Now, with the Japanese gone, he was back in his capital again. Up to his bomb-wrecked coronation hall...
Dvorak: In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Victor; 4 sides). A charming bit of nostalgic Czech musical landscape painting. Performance and recording: good...