Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman who was walking wearily along the street. She got into the back seat and after a silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went on 'Hitler will die on . . . (varying dates according to the version of the story).' The driver, now thoroughly scared, put her uncomfortable passenger out at the next corner and drove on. She was stopped at the next crossroads by a policeman who asked her to take a badly injured man to the hospital. She could not well refuse and the policeman...
This must be the French cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should like to hear further news...
Last week a new author took over the old plot, streamlined it, added exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved it cannot cure its own ills, Mr. Arnold sees only one alternative-action under the antitrust laws (which he enforces...
Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated other phases of the same conversion...
...Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart's shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a darkly ominous commentator who punctuates a morality play about the somewhat dated evils of rum-running, bootlegging, highjacking, speakeasies and Prohibition with warnings that after all, they may happen again...