Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard pressed to find money to finance the Third Reich's armament race. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week prepared to adopt outright thievery as an economy policy. The multi-uniformed economic dictator signed a decree providing for confiscation of practically all Jewish property throughout Greater Germany...
...behind them, that Greater Germany is irresistible, the 800,000 Nazis who attempt to lead the 3,200,000 Germans in the Republic of Czechoslovakia (pop. 15,000,000), became highly truculent last week. Their Führer, obedient Konrad Henlein, fresh from conferences in Berlin with Göring and other Nazi bigwigs, staged a mass meeting in Karlsbad, the famed spa, delivered a series of ultimatums to Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes so outrageous as to shock even the now violently pro-German London Times...
...tell its story, Trojan Incident leaps frenziedly in all directions, snatches at pantomime, dancing, choral singing like merry-go-round riders snatching at a brass ring. Artistically a desecration of Greek drama, Trojan Incident has nevertheless a mongrel excitement of its own: the tale flushes with pathos and movement, and some of Wallingford Riegger's music, such as the narrative chant The Song of the Horse, gives the story a rhythmic speed...
Four Men and a Prayer (Twentieth Century-Fox) demonstrates in brisk, British-cut, melodramatic fashion: 1) that the sun never sets on Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Clive of India, The House of Rothschild, Lloyd's of London), and 2) that Producer Zanuck can excuse the world munitions ring for any atrocity except an affront to British family honor...
Fomenting its trade in India, the ring brings disgrace and death to a British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass...