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...movie-going public seems to like religious films. The Bells of St. Mary's, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Going My Way have met with a popular box-office reception. A soundly constructed religious film can compete with the trivial film, and, can perform a definite service and teach a moral...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...
...Trivial . . . were your reviewer's rather snide remarks [TIME, April 8] about my "sub-historical" stuff (in Intimations of Eve), and my Tarzanish and Alley-Oopian portrayals; but of greater moment is his deft effort to conceal his ignorance and suggest his erudition with such remarks: "Experts may wish to argue . . . whether the principle of the canoe was grasped before the principle of the baby...
India was ready for a spark. Drought wrote a warning of famine across the country; Russia at UNO had fanned the winds of Asiatic nationalism. A trivial incident at Bombay touched off the British Empire's worst rebellion since the great Sepoy Mutiny...
...Foreign Ministers' Council meeting last October. In technique the truculence ranged from espionage to open fighting; in principle it ranged from persistent denial of free speech to violation of treaties. It endangered the UNO charter by use of the veto (the first by any power) on a relatively trivial issue;, it endangered the preparation of the peace treaties by consistent refusal to make any concessions whatever...