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...will clean streets (until he gets an appointment as a U.S. junior economist, for which he passed a Civil Service examination). Said Street Cleaner Goldstein: "I know the job hasn't the requisite prestige for social standing in the eyes of the public, but it's honest travail...
...time. If he failed, people might admire him for having undertaken a stupendous task, but his political future might be jeopardized. If he failed, the future of both Britain and India would be dark. If he succeeded, a new and better world might be born of the travail of empire...
Almost concealed by the weight of burlesque applied with superhuman travail by Maxie lies the counterpart of the message of social snobbery which J. P. Marquand gave to the world in the now famous "Pulham." Harvard's intellectual snobbery, a form of the disease as distasteful as its social counterpart and even more prevalent around Cambridge, deserves a shellacking, but the heavy hand of Hollywood molded Maxie's opus into the general style of belly-laugh comedies, abandoning all thought of satire...
Gaited to the unexhilarating life of an upState New York small town, Remember tells its story with homely detail. It shows the customary travail of a boy growing up; the teacher's wisdom grooving his bright young talents; her dubious reward in seeing him (John Shepperd), long after, become a U.S. Presidential candidate. There is also the teacher's furtive romance with the manual training teacher (John Payne), and their painful discovery of how sadistically the community minds their well-meant morals...
...Unless the Washington Government acts soon to restore the integrity of its treaties in the Manchurian crisis, the peace machinery built up after the travail of the World War will be worthless junk. . . . Settlement of Japan's war of aggression against China is in itself a serious enough problem. But it is insignificant compared with the larger issue of rescuing the world's peace machinery...