Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plant, of priorities on all scarce materials. In October, SPAB reinforced the policy by allowing materials to be allocated only to projects "necessary for direct national defense or . . . essential to the health and safety of the people." Again & again Government men have underlined the no-building-except-for-war theme. But much nonwar building (both private and public) has gone on nonetheless. Lately, as builders' hoards of scarce materials have dwindled, bootlegging has been growing. This week comes the inevitable crackdown...
...country before December 7 loudly pointed out that Hitler could not be defeated until American boys marched down Unter den Linden, and since that time cartoonists and editorial writers in every major paper in the country with the exception of the Chicago Tribune have pounded on the theme of attack...
...picked a good libretto, but no easy theme for an opera. Kipling's fable relates (in the famed Briton's most roll-down-to-Rio prose) how King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon...
Directed by Herbert Weiner '43, the play's main theme is: "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl." The male leads are shared by Vern Miller, who portrays "C. F.," the manager of a large Hollywood studio, and Stan Durwood and Mel Rodman, who represent the writing team of "J. Carlyle Benson" and "Robert...
This well-pastried pie of sense and nonsense is ably dished out by Protagonists Fonda and de Havilland. Co-Author Nugent, who directed, fails to reduce it from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...