Word: sort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether or not the cinema will be courageous enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot's Delight, this agitation was augmented by the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after almost deciding that Idiot's Delight...
Captain Rusty Greenhood will not meet any important opposition in the dive, but will have an opportunity to roll up a good point total for the New Haven papers to copy. So far this year, Yale's Endweiss has been doing more of this sort of thing than has Greenhood...
...poker. With his closest friend and right-hand man at CCC, James J. McEntee, he lives at the modestly priced Burlington Hotel in Washington. (Mrs. Fechner spends the winters with him, the rest of the time at their home in Wollaston, Mass.) He is definitely not a military sort...
From their experience grew the Pailthorpe-Mednikoff Theory, about which they hope to write a book if the show earns them enough money. Surrealist painting, they say, affords a very effective sort of psychotherapy. They believe childhood quirks, resulting in adulthood's maladjustments, can be cleared away if the subconscious mind paints them through symbols of its choice...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...