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Boulevards and Boudoirs. Helen Goes to Troy translates Homer into French bedroom farce. Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes. Its Hellas consists entirely of boulevards and boudoirs. Its Helen, beneath her classical robes, is a bored upper-class Parisienne whose bumbling...
Heavenly Body (M.G.M.) unexpectedly translates dapper William Powell into an absent-minded astronomer. He spends all night every night up at the observatory, mousing around with comets. His wife (Hedy Lamarr) sits home (as Astronomer Powell occasionally ascertains by a glance through his spare telescope), all undressed and no place...
"Desert Victory" is a first rate documentary of the El Alamein-Tripoli phase in the Eighth Army's North African advance. It translates the newspaper headlines of the past months into specific and personal detail; it shows, in the determined action and tense faces of the men themselves, how the...
Confused Soldier. "Private Breger'' is a wide-eyed, overspectacled, freckled little soldier, clumsy, meek, confused but undismayed. Cartoonist Breger likes to think of "Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war...
Milstein has only one eccentricity: a method of remembering telephone numbers. He thinks of the digits from one to nine as positions on the G string of his Stradivarius, thus translates each combination of numbers into a melody. Then he has only to remember the exchange-and the melodv.