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...Anthony Adverse (TIME, June 26, 1933)* began last week its first public appearance. The Forest and the Fort is Volume I of a huge projected novel about American life between the years 1700 and 1840. It will be followed by at least five more volumes, of which two, Bedford Vil lage and City in the Dawn, are already written. The completed work will later be reissued in two volumes (Sylvania, Richfield Springs), finally assembled into a single massive tome called The Disinherited...
Like a fresh wind blowing in from the sea, the campaign spread over Europe. V, which stood for victory in English and victoire in French, became vryheid (freedom) in Dutch, vitezstvi (victory) in Czech, vitestvo (heroism) in Serbian, and in Norwegian ve vil vinne, which means just what it sounds like in pidgin English...
Luck: wootsk Puck: pootsk Lwow: voof Lodz: lutsch Pripet: pree'petch Brest Litovsk: bzhesch lit-ev'ski Bialystok: bia-ly'stock Vilna : vil'no Przemysl: pshe-meeshl...
Kameradschaft (Nero). "Ethical, not aesthetic values make up the value of this film." If this statement, by George Vil-helm Pabst who directed it, were true, Kameradschaft would of course be a negligible sermon, unfit to be observed. It is on the contrary a powerful and convincing picture of which the ethical values are important because, in his treatment of a coal-mine disaster on the Franco-German border, Director Pabst has implied them so artfully...
...shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having...