Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having a passionate affair with the U. S. wife of a Mexican general, is fatally gored in time to prevent a worse tragedy. A colorful, realistic, badly constructed tale, Mars in the House of Death will add more to Ingram's reputation for versatility than to literature...
...took pains to divorce himself from lay progressive educators. "We Catholics," said he, "believe in original sin, and so we believe in discipline. A good many progressives don't seem to believe in any sin at all!" Discipline in Dr. Johnson's school, however, is a mild affair. In its four years, no child, he admitted, has been punished...
...crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...
Although the British censor passed several conflicting reports on this affair (see p. 25), a later "official report" set the gossip straight. A German squadron had indeed started over Chatham. Home fighters had indeed gone up. But so prompt were they, so excited their brother gunners below, that when they returned (after scaring off the German eagles) their own guns powed them. One British pilot crashed dead...
...Lady Esketh. Harried Producer Zanuck got no peace until he solved the mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress Ouspenskaya stole the picture. As the barefooted but regal Maharani of The Rains Came, she does it again...