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Jean Murat, who plays the role of Captain Benoit, a French Secret Service agent, steals valuable German plans and is out for more when the Prussian staff puts pretty Erna Flieder (Vera Korene of the Comedie Francaise) on his trail. After getting what he wants by posing as a banker, he flees Germany with an innocent post-mistress whom he had beguiled in order to carry out his plan...
...Cantabrico. With $720,000 worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis of Rebel Spanish cruisers lured by her fame...
...Last week, however, a Lockheed Electra of Compañia Mexicana de Aviación, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, crashed and burned with nine aboard in a jungle swamp near Vera Cruz...
...best-selling autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain tried to "describe and assess the fate of a young generation ignorantly and involuntarily caught" in the chaos of the War and post-War years. Last week this earnest British writer offered a novel with a theme no less ambitious but a good deal less sharply defined: the relation of the feminist movement, the War and changing social standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half...
...being disgraced for his homosexuality before he was killed in action, fell in love with a cheerful, courageous Harvard graduate who was serving with the British troops. Readers accustomed to scathing portraits of U. S. citizens in British and European fiction are likely to be taken aback by Vera Brittain's eloquent, recurring, heartfelt tributes to U. S. generosity, youth, bravery, virility, as well as by the strange slang she attributes to her U. S. characters. Ruth gives herself to her U. S. lover, is heart broken after his death in the Argonne that she did not bear...