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...after he disappeared from the Army in 1942, Farmer Hubert Osborne dug a tunnel from his house to the barn to use as an escape route if the MPs ever showed up, panicked when they finally arrived, ran across the lawn dropping a telltale trail of bran from a sack he was carrying, was arrested, charged with desertion...
Shame on TIME for trying to pass off a sloppily stuffed sack of fur as a live elk. All your bugling hunter is going to lure out of that glass-eyed mount are moths...
...mass of people on the streets are mostly peasants in padded jackets, minor bureaucrats in bell-bottomed trousers and women workers in potato-sack dresses. One in ten carries a small bundled-up infant. To see Russians smile, the visitor must observe them playing with their children in the parks of culture and rest. In the back streets, scores of old men and women shuffle along hopelessly, but although they may look like beggars, it is unlikely that they will ask a recognizable foreigner for alms...
...Brattle's reaction was one of quiet, well-mannered relief, the management of the Beacon Hill Theatre made more flamboyant use of all the free publicity it had received. "I don't think the Brattle managers handled their publicity correctly," Benjamin Sack, owner of the Beacon Hill Theatre, explained. "I think Miss Julie deserved a longer showing." He himself proceeded to sign a contract with Times Films to exhibit The Game of Love, One Summer of Happiness, Manon, Le Plaisir, and Gigi--all of which are noted for their censorable subject matter...
Sometime after Christmas, Sack will show One Summer of Happiness, a beautifully photographed and delicate film about a tragic summer romance. The theme of this movie is not particularly objectionable, but it does contain a nude bathing scene of the kind Sweden easily takes in stride. A sneak preview of the film was shown several weeks ago, and the Boston city censor came to the performance. Afterwards, he only commented to the Beacon Hill Theatre owner, "You will hear from...