Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suzanna and the Elders (by Lawrence Langner & Armina Marshall, produced by Jack Kirkland) tells the tale of one of the many little "Bible socialism" colonies that flourished in the U. S. in the iQth Century. This typical but fictional one, at Harmony Heights, Mass., is devoted to a sharing economy based on the sale of animal traps to the outer world, and to selective breeding designed to do for man "what has long been done for horses, swine and potatoes." The economy breaks down with the advent of a handsome inventor from Yale whose mass-production machinery gives the less...
British newspapers picked up the tale, thought it fact, discovered that supposedly favorable weather obtained on the night in question, that Hermann Göring was advertised to have flown over London and that the R. A. F. had shot down 185 planes the day before. Said the Times's denial (from its London office): "The British Army has never seen a German soldier approaching these shores; the Navy has never attacked or seen any boats headed for England. The Air Force, in all its attacks on the so-called invasion ports, has never seen a German soldier...
...works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another. But the film's talky treatment of the problems of inconstancy does much to prove that movies have to move to be Your Best Entertainment...
...fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...
...Italy, fortnight ago, roared a triumphant tale of victory over the British Mediterranean Fleet. Gleefully Rome told of sinking a British cruiser in the Malta Channel, damaging an aircraft carrier and another cruiser, putting the Royal Navy to rout. Last week tits British Admiralty issued a different version, backed it up with firsthand accounts of the battle...