Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's first air-raid scare produced two flatly conflicting stories passed through the censor to the U. S. before the War Office's own propaganda agency (under oldtime Hackwriter Ian Hay) got out the third or "official version" (see p. 15). Foreign correspondents were driven into a frenzy by the slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised...
Nurse Edith Cavell (Imperadio-RKO), the austere-faced, 50-year-old Englishwoman who was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels in 1915 for aiding the escape of fugitives from German prison camps, has appeared as the heroine of three cinemas. The first, and most bravura, version was made in the U. S. in 1918, year before Nurse Cavell was reinterred by the British in Norwich Cathedral and Germany took the villain's rap at Versailles. In 1928 British Producer Herbert Wilcox presented in Dawn a more objective edition in keeping with the forgive-&-forget spirit of Locarno...
...step version, the Beer Barrel Polka resembled a polka about as much as Yes, We Have No Bananas resembles a pavane. And Librettist Brown's lyrics (written with an eye to Bible-belt circulation) carefully avoided all reference to beer. But last week the Beer Barrel Polka, topped the current best-seller list, with 357,000 copies sold to date...
...eloquence was matchless because he meant every word of it. Not for him was the Hollywood-Rudyard Kipling version of the Empire, compounded of pukha sahibs, Gunga Din, the little brown men, and domains beyond the sea-for him Empire was a living faith, a political necessity, a way of life, a practical program and sometimes almost a religion. Son of brilliant, sensitive Lord Randolph who died young, of a handsome, American mother, Young Churchill was groomed to rule from the start, never let himself or his friends forget it. At 20, after Harrow and Sandhurst, he held a dinner...
...ears burn. When the recording was issued in Germany this summer, German Wagnerphiles' ears burned in vain for the parts recorded in pre-Anschluss Austria. They found they had to take their Walküre without their Sieglinde. Luckier U. S. Wagnerphiles, listening to the complete version, will find Sieglinde's warbling to be a cut above the record's remaining average...