Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaya seemed to have gone berserk. Arson had become commonplace. Workers battled police with spears and picks. Posters cried: "Destroy those who work for other races." Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner of the Malay Federation, proclaimed a state of emergency, granted extraordinary powers to the police...
...question used to be: Can Shakespeare's plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all. But Henry raised another question that it could not answer: Can the screen cope with Shakespeare at his best? Olivier undertook to answer that one, too. One evening next week, at simultaneous previews in Manhattan and Hollywood,* the first U.S. audiences will see the result...