Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's brilliant young (28) Conductor Leonard Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 24), whose admirers have made him a kind of Sinatra of symphony. But he had never seen anything like this. Partly the ovation was Jewish pride in him: the audience was all Jewish-not a single British soldier, policeman or government official was there...
...done and the continuity--usually hampered when a foreign picture is cut for export--is good. Minor sketches of a fortune-telling gypsy and a one-eyed bandit are among the picture's high-spots, but the high-spots are few. The bitter revenge that motivated Merimee's unhappy soldier, and his fatal attachment for Carmen, are hinted at here but never realistically portrayed, and thus to main thread of the plot is expressed more by subtle implication than by forceful story-telling. But judging from the advertisements, subtle implications are what the public wants, and whether Boston likes...
...News. Near Trondheim, Norway, Vassilij Rambovski, a Russian soldier, who had been holed up since escaping from a Nazi prison in 1944, learned to his delight that the war was over...
Down Potsdam's slushy Berlinerstrasse stumbled twelve haggard men. Halfheartedly they tried to avoid the largest puddles. Their faces had the pale, creased look of prisoners. Behind them trudged a stubby, broad-faced Russian soldier, Tommy gun crooked in his right arm, the wide Ukrainian steppe in his blue eyes...
...themselves. This one inevitably involves Jimmy Durante and a couple of other characters of varied talent who get into the act, of whom one quite frequently may be a girl named Kathryn Grayson, who sings. "It Happened in Brooklyn" has something to do with a shy ex-soldier with a great and unrequited love for the well-known borough, accompanied by an assortment of others (girl music teacher, boy piano-player, bashful songwriter), all with fervid musical ambitions. At frequent intervals they burst out into song, both separately and en masse...