Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder mysteries are all the same, and the only way to judge them is to evaluate their treatment. There is nothing in the format of a who-dunit which will make a good film or be anything other than a common-place. But the producers of Sleep My Love have taken such a common-place tale and by skillful directing, acting, and photography turned it into a neat suspenseful package...
...With Wallace . . ." Treatment of missionaries and mission property by the Reds seemed to depend on the whims or decisions of individual officers. In the city of Tsaoyang, mild-mannered young Missionary .Philip Werdal, of Bellingham, Wash., underwent repeated interrogation from 27-year-old Communist Colonel Wong, graduate of Nanking University, an American-supported mission school. Wong looked at Werdal's soft hands, then at his own calloused ones. He said he was a Communist because he wanted, some day, to have soft hands...
...Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...
Aside from the treatment of its main theme, "Gentleman's Agreement" is one of the few pictures that contains an intelligent and realistic portrayal of the well-to-do semi-literary people who inhabit New York. Gregory Peek, John Garfield, Dorothy McGurie, and Celeste Holm are always completely aware of what is in the characters they are pretending to be. Perhaps they are a little too sensitive to the picture's peculiar brand of hate, but to them it is a casual frequenter of homes and business offices rather than a satanie mouster...
...Push. Another stubborn mystery that got the theory treatment: cosmic rays-the enormously powerful particles that slam into the earth's atmosphere. Cosmic rays, said Drs. Donald H. Menzel (Harvard) and W. W. Salisbury (Collins Radio Co.), may be "accelerated particles" from a natural cyclotron whose power source...