Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After leading the whirlwind Arab camelry to victory over the Turks in the World War, the late Lieut. Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence refused decorations and money, reputedly as a protest against Britain's weaseling on territorial promises made to buy the Arabs for the Allies. This tragic-hero role lost some of its poignancy last week with the publication of a chapter previously omitted, on the advice of George Bernard Shaw, from Lawrence's confessional, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This chapter reveals that the Colonel knew all along that the Arabs would be double-crossed...
When Adolf Hitler openly marched into Czecho-Slovakia last March, taking physical possession of the country he had morally conquered in September, loud words emanated from London in protest, few from Paris. Months before, the Premier had said, "The role of Don Quixote does not suit me." His answers to Herr Hitler's moves this time were to be not words but alliances and pacts. Three days after CzechoSlovakia's conquest, with another crisis rapidly developing, the Premier again asked for and got his third set of decree powers, valid for eight months more. Thus M. Daladier...
...movies in English without strongly impressing U. S. audiences. Her English film debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance to show that the German critics used to be right...
...depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation after a three-hour Sanskrit exam may become a little embittered about the whole thing. But those who want to see acting in its very finest form, those who want to see a top-notch actress in a top-notch role, a drama that has real emotional uplift, those men better take a trip right up to a certain building on the Square and ask for Bette...
...Little Foxes. Tense, biting drama with Tallulah Bankhead brilliantly imperious in the leading role (TIME...