Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
Secret Documents. Hitler attacked first, said President Roosevelt,.reciting the bloody tale of the U.S.S. Kearny.* He added grimly that it will not matter who fired the first shot: "All that will matter is who fired the last shot." The attack on the Kearny was no chance encounter, said the President. It was part of a long-range Nazi plan - first to drive U.S. shipping off the seas, then to dominate the Americas. For proof, he men tioned a secret map which, he said, "I have in my possession . . . made in Ger many by Hitler's Government...
...replica of his dead wife, and they were shortly having an atmospheric affair. Chafing against a hard edge of reluctance she felt in Stahr, the girl married another man. Stahr, no drinker, got dismally drunk. Fitzgerald's manuscript stops at that point. The synopsis, and notes carry the tale down to Stahr's death in an airplane crash, and its curious aftermath...
...After throttling his leman, a London hack writer discovers she possessed the secret code of a traitorous political organization. His immoral cunning helps him quench the national danger and save his own skin after more murders, torture, Buchanesque chases and all-round wickedness. A thoroughly unprincipled, exciting, ably written tale...
Although Dumbo offers no startling innovations in animated cartooning, it is probably Disney's best all-round picture to date. Though it lacks the bomb-burst novelty of Snow White, its craftsmanship is far beyond that memorable fairy tale's. Seldom has Disney articulated his characters so aptly. Dumbo is a most human little fellow, not bright, but willing. His costar, Timothy, is an appealing caricature of a Hollywood agent with a heart. The elephant ladies' aid society ("Girls! Have I got a trunkful of dirt!") is artful satire...