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Glossy and tinseled, the two features now playing at Loew's State and Orpheum are both based on a primer book conception of American life, a rosey landscape which precludes the appearance of any squalor or the portrayal of any emotional conflict. Each movie was denuded of dramatic meat for a different reason. One, a propaganda-type film scheduled for release around Brotherhood Week, was sterilized to make the American flag shine more brightly. The main feature, The Belle of New York, is a musical and therefore should not need any dramatic merit...
...bloodshed settles nothing, but proves one thing. In its brief life as a new nation, Israel has succeeded against staggering odds in building a modern republic in the sandy squalor of the Middle East. But it has not yet found a way to erase the mutual hatred, extremism and distrust that make it an island of 1,390,000 in a sea of 30 million enemies...
Smith, who died October 24 and was buried November 5 in Potter's Field, lived in squalor for nearly 30 years in a three-story frame house near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When the house was opened Tuesday police found tons of junk and newspapers which he collected in his nightly rummaging through garbage cans...
...Lenin, but he got a host of influential underlings. When Foreign Minister Chicherin, who lived in great splendor, heard that Karl Radek, who lunched off sardines on newspaper,* was being sculpted, Chicherin remarked to Jo: "What a curious man, Radek. Why does he go on living in such squalor? . . . After all, there has been the revolution." "He is a curious man, Chicherin," confided Radek. "Look at the way he lives. You would never know there had been a revolution...
Goodfriend's moral is more subtle than that, however. Taking us through the squalor of China, his pictures show us the intelligence, the assiduity, the pride, sensitivity, and courage of ordinary people, and consequently the mixed feelings with which they have received our generosity. At this point we find two individuals confronting each other in Mr. Goodfriend's pages--a baffied American advertising executive, evidently stuck on the problem how further to exploit the "X" in LUX ("New! Faster! Sudsier! So Safe!"), and a primordial-looking Chinese oldster, complete with whiskers and pipe, peering quizzically at us through Chinese eyes...