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...make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter Wanger, Vincent Sheean's Personal History; Hal Roach, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Douglas Fairbanks, a biography of Adventuress Lola Montez called The Californian...
This statement was made in an interview yesterday by Vincent Sheean, author and foreign correspondent, in a plea for more intelligent study of world affairs. Students should prepare themselves for the crises in Europe and Asia by following the trends; and the colleges should help them by correlating the teaching of history more closely with contemporary happenings, Sheean said...
...correspondent of long experience, Sheean began his career on the University of Chicago's student paper, where he says he got valuable training...
Hitler's attack on the Czechs is just a part of the great expansion, within and without, which the Germans are having, Sheean said. The German press and radio is so censored that the people have lost interest in Hitler's dramatic moves, he went on. They were more concerned with a new cheap car the government is building than in the seizure of the Czechs...
Crisis concerns last summer's developments in Czechoslovakia. Photographed by Alexander Hackenschmied, assembled by Herbert Kline, with an accompanying commentary written by Vincent Sheean and recited by Actor Leif Erikson, it examines from a frankly anti-Nazi point of view what happened between Hitler's invasion of Austria and the Munich conference. It sets out to show that the Czechs in their difficult predicament did much better than they were done by. Prime difficulties of recording history on film are that: 1) history neglects to follow a shooting schedule, and 2) that the most significant happenings are often...