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...tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. ... A nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender." He described the Nazi regime in language stripped of both sentiment and profanity: ". . . In their background the concentration camp and the servants of God in chains. . . . Shootings and chains and concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars of modern dictatorships. They may talk of a 'new order' . . . but what they have in mind is but a revival of the oldest...
This was the uneasy background against which, this week, President Roosevelt spoke to the nation. Because he also spoke for the nation, his words had the effect of lessening the tumult. But before the President said his say, many an earnest, angry or just plain balled-up citizen said...
Victory (Paramount). In its present phase of escapist entertainment, the cinema can think of no more useful place to train its cameras than on the moody background of the East Indies. And no writer of English fiction used that background with more skill than Polish-born Novelist Joseph Conrad. Sooner or later, Hollywood was sure to dig further into his work for a scenario...
Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
...stations throughout the country, these sentiments are sung by a character called Gaston, whose recorded outbursts are sponsored by Chateau Martin wine. Few jingles have made such an impact on the U. S. Variations on Gaston's theme are popular in nightclubs, his antics have formed the background of several skits, and his slogan "I am NUTS about the good old Oo Ess Ay" is incessantly echoed among the nation's small...