Word: flashbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little boy is waiting, in a strange house in Paris, for a mother he has never seen. He knows nothing about the people in the house; they know all about him. In a flashback to the past, the story tells why. Karen is young, beautiful, intelligent, one of an English family so aristocratic that it can afford not to be snobbish. She is engaged to just the right man; he has gone to the Orient on business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes...
...Italy Has No Future." Since the vein of Benito Mussolini's policy lies deep,. Pierre Laval's visit was best viewed after a flashback to last March, when Il Duce unfolded before the Fascist Quinquennial Assembly of 4,000 prominent Blackshirts his 60-year plan (TIME. March 26). After making his favorite ironical remark "Our relations with Switzerland continue to be friendly." the Dictator challenged Frenchmen thus: "Reality demands that I state that none of the problems which have existed between France and ourselves for 15 years has been solved...
...place among modern Schmalzmusik. But the libretto with its creaky structure belongs to the bygone era of celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also escaped having the following appeal addressed to her: "Ah, Marchesa, wouldn't it be divine if we both went nuts together under a Venetian moon...
...family fights within Texas Corp., biggest independent oil company in the U. S. But nothing ever emerged for public inspection from Texaco's battle-torn board room until last autumn when Ralph Clinton Holmes, ousted as the company's chairman, gave Texaco's stockholders a flashback of internal tussles (TIME, Oct. 2). Mr. Holmes's heaviest fire was directed at John H. ("Jack") Lapham, chairman of the executive committee and one of three representatives of the Lapham family, whose meddling, said Mr. Holmes, always brought on unhappy boardroom scenes. The management's answer...
...dying of heart disease just before the picture ends, after sending a long letter to her lieutenant, now a stockbroker ruined by the Crash. More sadly than reproachfully, she reminds him of her existence and tells him that he has a son. The picture, told in a long flashback, starts when Lieutenant Emerson, sitting down at his desk with the intention of shooting himself, sees the letter. When he is through reading, he has forgotten about suicide...