Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donning civilian tweeds, Crommelin pocketed a sheaf of papers, and went downtown to get in touch with the three wire services (the A.P. man said they rendezvoused in "a shadowy corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
...acting in "A Touch" is limited, again, by the pantomime requirements of the silent film. It meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person...
...Kiddies, or even necessarily allow you to spend a Pleasant Hour at the U.T. You may find the photography extraordinarily sensitive; it might just as well give you a headache. The story can strike you as social commentary, or a cutting-room sweeping of unarticulated scenes. But "A Touch of the Times" will also let you know that there are people seriously pointing ahead towards movie-making as an art. It will show you that even in their creeping stage, these people can do a lot of things better than their million-dollar walking brothers...
...things now stand, "A Touch" is scheduled for a nation-wide tour some time in the near future. Its one-night stand in Cambridge, however, may turn out to be its only Boston showing. This fact, coupled with its timely premiere on the eve of a football weekend, has probably accounted for the sell-out anticipated by members of the club...
Lauriston Ward, Jr. '49, president of Ivy, is naturally very happy over the way things are shaping up. In addition to publicity that "A Touch of the Times" is gleaning for his organization, the money it is making, and the jobs it has created for its producers, the film is also stirring up interest in the student body...