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Professional Soldier Lamb shakes a sad head over the undisciplined, insubordinate American soldiery, their treacherous breaches of warfare's rules, the jealousies among their generals. Sadder still, with no inexperience to excuse them, are Britain's graft-rotten sea transport, uncoordinated military plans, incompetent ministers in London. Roger Lamb's sharp eyes are open also to the wonders of the New World: St. Lawrence scenery, hoop snakes, strange herbs, the odd customs of the Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits...
...been coming out of the Geographical Lecture Room lately a sadder and a wiser...
Except for the Aquacade, last season's New York World's Fair had a pretty shoddy amusement area. This season, sadder but wiser Fair officials decided to shoot the works along the Midway with a $600,000 supercolossal patriotic spectacle, American Jubilee, which would be a small fair in itself...
...Even sadder: this is probably Shirley Temple's last picture. Our hearts are touched. For Shirley acted, sang, and danced well, and didn't deserve to have her Templian charm stifled in an uninspired million-dollar quagmire. In spite of a double-crossing producer, we wish her a happy future, when, like Deanna, we will see her kissed for the very first time...
...held up to them as an example of fearlessness the young men of Canada who have gone to war. No one walked out, but there was a nervous shifting of feet and clearing of throats. And the wind in the trees outside seemed to sigh with an even sadder note. It wasn't much like Easter...