Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even in mangled form, such scenes as the silver blaze of ripe wheat and sunflowers full of struggling men, crazed horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before. These Russian classics shine against the cheap, easy sheen of most films (and much of this film) as nobly as a battle flag against the patriotism worn by a chorus girl for a breechclout...
...graveyard, not all expressions were of grief and hope of eternity. There was also smoldering anger. Said one young lieutenant from Mississippi, as he saw the still line-up at the cemetery's edge: "I wonder if those sons of bitches holding up war production back home wouldn't change their minds if they could look at this...
...which (for no particular reason) brings us to the fact that marching past Chase Hall at this early morning moment is the Army Air Corps, doing quite a good job of marching and that falsetto yodelling of their's . . . which must make you wonder "When are we going to be able to do that?". The answer, as far as the vocal refrains go is that words to the songs we're going to outdo them with are being mimeographed and we'll be working on them within the week, or at least so say Middles Davies and Blake, promoters...
...wonder the R.A.F. has such a fine reputation," one soldier said as the group left the hall...
Didyaknow: Bob Edwards expects a $10,000 check (or thereabouts) for a story recently accepted by the Saturday Evening Post. He won't reveal the subject. Wonder why . . . Bob Henderson's wedding pictures are really somp'n. He starts out dignified and handsome, and ends up handsome. Beautiful wife too, but that's only natcheral (5c please). . . . What student officer has red spots before his eyes every time he puts on his whites . . . . What's Bill Kershaw's new system for meeting the right girls in places? Dick Custer reported to be closing a deal with his "Andover Anchovy". Seems...