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Loafers in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend...
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 6 ft. 4 in. tall and 53 years old, is very French indeed: not the explosive, whiskery, gesturing type of Frenchman, but the sober, hard-working kind to whom God is one of many inescapable facts. In the dreary industrial city of Lille in Flanders, close to Belgium, Charles de Gaulle was born Nov. 22, 1890. The De Gaulles were petty aristocracy, provincial squires, not well off. Papa taught philosophy. For hulking Charles, the family determined on St. Cyr, the West Point of France. Charles entered low, graduated high...
...must still have been on his mind, for according to the model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
...targets. Where they had once been able to put 600 fighters into the air to meet any heavy attack, their limit now appeared to be around 400. But the flyers who went up were the Luftwaffe's best; they fought with a skill and bitterness that earned them sober professional praise from their foes...
...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...