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Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...
...Roon," bases its claim for attention on the physical vigor, imperviousness to hard falls, and mobile face of Beatrice Lillie. The action spirals about the efforts of Lorelei Dodge-Blodgett (Miss Lillie) and Bill Rensem (Bing Crosby) to wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera. Bing Crosby provides an innocuous background, giving repeated versions of "On the Sentimental...
...Marc Rein, an anti-Stalinist writer who served in a Catalan factory as an engineering expert "disappeared" from his Barcelona hotel nine months ago, has not been heard of since...
That little opportunity exists for outward manifestations of unrest was evident from the fact that His Imperial Majesty keeps a tight rein on the army, maintains a force of 20,000 of his best-clothed, best-fed, best-paid soldiers in Teheran, This week the stern dictator's men were making the rounds of households along the route of the contemplated state drive of His Imperial Majesty, warning citizens to display flags, hang out banners...
...leads 2,000 men, women and children in a mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...