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...That also includes Miss Lamarr who strolls placidly through the role of a Soviet streetcar motorman intent on the cause. Scripters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer's picture of bungling and dawdling inside the Soviet is a lot less witty, and less tender than Greta Garbo's memorable film Ninotchka. But their slapstick commentary is a relief from the realities of headlines...
...this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window. They cannot deny that bodily differences are inherited, so they simply put body and mind in separate compartments. "This," says Hooton, "is the human declaration of independence. It has produced a social schizophrenia which is making a madhouse of civilization...
Hooton declares that inherited temperamental differences in animals are admitted by most scientists, but that when they stop over the threshold to humanity, these tender-minded, idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out of the window...
...Government's aggressive collaboration with Hitler, with Vice Premier Laval asserting that democracy throughout the world was dead, with no U. S.-built warplanes destined for France still immobilized in Martinique, the significance of that move caused some good guesses (see p. 35). Five destroyers and a seaplane tender slipped out of Key West; three others, attended by eleven seaplanes, followed them. At the same time 1,200 Air Corps officers and men arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a squadron of naval patrol planes. Diplomatically, Secretary Hull called attention to the presence of this fleet near Martinique...
...sports "A Man From The Band" can be decidedly convincing. Most of the first act, in which Ernie the drummer boy woos and wins Miss Channing in half an hour after she had been dropped by her socialite lover, is a very careful and tender piece of writing. But too much of the play is inexcusably tedious and full of long speeches like Ernie's final plea for "la vic jazz" which in almost a twinkling convinces his wife that he ain't a bad guy after...