Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the Dutch Achilles, Captain Schoofs peeled off his burnt clothes, borrowed a uniform from the Dutch captain and was carried to Cherbourg where he briskly stepped ashore. "With extraordinary rapidity," he cried, "the electric wiring propagated the blaze! Fire broke out in several widely separated parts of the ship all at once...
...Girls in Uniform (by Christa Winsloe; Sidney Phillips, producer). First it was a novel, then a play, then a film. Now Playwright Winsloe's Maedchen in Uniform is to be seen in a translated version of its second phase, not nearly so satisfactory as its third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck...
...original idea behind Girls in Uniform calls for atmospheric rather than dramatic presentation. The simple story: Manuela discovers happiness in her scholastic exile until she finds that her devotion to her teacher is regarded as a far more heinous infraction of the rules than passing notes. Possibly because most of them did not understand German, U. S. filmgoers were struck by the shy fragility of this relationship. The sense of grey imprisonment, so successfully captured on the screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform...
...Sept. 12 et seq.). They blame the food shortage on the Plan, blame Dictator Stalin for the Plan, and yet are docile. Things were so quiet in Moscow last week that Soviet censors calmly passed dozens of dispatches stating that Russia has failed to achieve anything like complete or uniform fulfillment of her Plan...
Professor Chafee, admitting it is difficult to prescribe a uniform pre-legal curriculum for everyone, declared: "A chief count in the indictment of college education is that it fails to develop a desire for reading books in fields outside of courses...