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...Prague's patriotic citizens to hide Heydrich's killer, one Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy); a venerable professor (Walter Brennan) who gives his life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom by her fiancé (Dennis O'Keefe); and a local quisling (Gene Lockhart) whose double framing as both Heydrich's and the inspector's assassin solves two dilemmas with one bold stroke. Director Lang tells this story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Francis told stories; Miss Landis sang (one of her numbers: Strip Polka) ; Miss Raye clowned and Miss Mayfair danced, winding up her act by cutting a rug with a soldier and then carrying him offstage like a sack of meal. When they learned that their audiences hungered for the scent of perfume, the girls conserved their small supply by wearing it only at performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Penicillin has the disadvantages of being hard to make, easy to spoil-it must be kept at refrigerator temperatures and would be very inconvenient for battlefield use. But, since it may fill many gaps in chemotherapy, the doctors following it feel like hounds on a hot scent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Penicillin | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...farm Crosby tires of agrarian chores and teams up with demure Marjorie Reynolds to make the farm a Mecca for droves of metropolitan entertainment seekers. Astaire soon catches the scent and plays the Lothario again but with less success this time, though the film's generally light mood makes it rather unimportant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/10/1942 | See Source »

...order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Egg Shelley and Drang Nach Osten '45, fledglings must be prepared to acquire the scent for news, follow this elusive vapor to its course, and report the results in readable prose...

Author: By Managing Editor and J. ROBERT Moskin, S | Title: IF COLLEGE PALLS, THE CRIMSON CALLS | 10/6/1942 | See Source »

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