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Said the Times next day: ". . . The noble ceremony [is] . . . itself a part of the enduring background of our civilization against which even the war might appear no more than a gigantic irrelevancy...
Because the hero (Anton Walbrook) is a famed Polish pianist, Suicide Squadron resounds with melody. Its background score, composed by Richard Addinsel, is alone worth the price of admission. The picture follows Patriot Walbrook from gutted Warsaw to the U.S., underscores his marriage to a pretty U.S. heiress (Sally Gray) and her misbegotten attempt to keep him from flying with the remnants of his Polish squadron, reassembled in England...
...century man must change or nature would supersede him as she had the dinosaurs. Thomas Hardy, unable to conceive that the world in which he found himself could have been created by a conscious Power, saw evidences of "the coming universal wish not to live." Such is the cultural background of modern man's moral fears. It is also the cultural background of Author de Sales...
...main virtue of "The Lady Has Plans" is that while Nazi spies, hidden blueprints and intrigue abound throughout, they are at all times kept subservient to the main aim of being amusing. The result is a lightweight comedy which has Lisbon and the war as a background but no pretensions to social significance. It is, in fact, concerned mainly with the attempts of various espionage agents to uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture...
...army of ever 100,000 in the past two years. Laurence B. Packard '09, visiting professor of History from Amherst College, explained the relation of the African theater of war to other Free French endeavors, while C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, sketched the background of French control in these areas...