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Storm at Daybreak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). What would have become of Hollywood without the War is appalling to imagine. When gangsters, showgirls, Broadway colyumists and the inmates of reformatories are momentarily exhausted, there is always the Archduke Ferdinand and the affair at Sarajevo. With this as a starting point, Storm at Daybreak relates the tragic romance of a man who falls in love with his best friend's wife, played to the limit against an Austro-Serbian background and splendidly directed by Richard Boleslavsky...
Without a trial, Dr. Matchek was simply informed by Belgrade's Police Chief that "during His Majesty's pleasure" he will be interned in a village near ominous Sarajevo, birth village of the World War. Father Koroshetz will be interned at another village. Belgrade newshawks heard that King Alexander "is now determined to crush Croat and Slovene discontent with iron severity." How did His Majesty, recently reported suffering from a bad case of nerves, suddenly recover and become so cocky? The answer seemed to be "Sinaia...
...Great War was between Germany and America and was thus fought in Belgium, one of the chief causes being the murder of the Austrian Duke of Sarajevo by a murderer in Serbia...
THERE are certain events that are of themselves too dramatic for man to dramatize. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo with all its implications is so tremendous that any novel must of necessity diminish rather than heighten its effect. It is not a clever plot: nor is it a highly emotional tour de force. No single imagination can capture in fiction its massive significance...
...tapping of her tremendous resources, the rumors of Russia's dealing on the world wheat market, the bickering in the League, China's militarism, Japan's watchful waiting, the naval break between France and Italy, the international tariff blockades, all these things and many more, make these days portentous. Sarajevo was but a spark, and there are signs of internal combustion the world over...