Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maurin's conclusion is his own, though its truth must be challenged, for he is obviously wrong when he says that the Communists' "advocate class struggle." They do not. They say that the class struggle is a fact and that only the dictatorship of the proletariat can end it. That is not the same thing as what Maurin, says, but it is Marx or Lenin. Maurin has the especial merit of stating a point of view so badly that it stimulates the reader to examine closely his every word. Thus he acquaints us with the opinions of many persons less...
...knew anything about Soviet housing could have told the Dictator any time in the past several years that such has been the case, but it is characteristic of Joseph Stalin's most drastic decrees that they are usually issued with a tone of just having learned the awful truth. Last week's decree ends one of the last, most treasured private rights of many Soviet citizens, that of being masters in their own homes to the extent that they have had a voice in a collective which was master. Hereafter control passes to the local Soviet, thus...
...Awful Truth (Columbia). Resourceful, humorous Director Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap, The Milky Way, Make Way For Tomorrow) takes a couple of derby hats, an ingratiating wire-haired fox terrier and three players without any special reputations as comedians, and spins a brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also...
...cinema character roles that carried her from youth to grey old age (Cimarron, Show Boat), put her foot down last year, demanded comedy. Her astonishing hoe-down interlude in Show Boat indicated her aptitude for lighter things. Theodora Goes Wild gave her the first full-length try. The Awful Truth establishes her with her peers, Claudette Colbert and Jean Arthur...
...While touring the Spanish front last spring, Actor Flynn was reported wounded by a machine-gun bullet. Prosaic truth was that he was hit on the head by falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...