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WARM SPRINGS, Ga.--President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, of Canada, conferred in a mountainside cottage tonight against a background of Canadian embroilment in the European war and Mr. Roosevelt's pledge to protect America's North American neighbor from invasion...
...through the Westphalian Peace of 1648."* These words were addressed to Berlin's foreign correspondents, one day last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter -taken in M. Reynaud's office on the occasion of Mr. Welles's visit to Paris, subsequently published on the cover of UIllustration...
Throughout the world some 300,000,000 people every week hear symphonic music in the movies, whether they know it or not. Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed...
Producer David O. Selznick has seen to it that Rebecca follows Daphne du Maurier's novel as faithfully as Gone With the Wind followed Margaret Mitchell's. So Director Hitchcock faced the usual problem of filming a wordy book -how to convey long-winded off-stage narrative background without slowing up the fast-moving camera. Out of this handicap Director Hitchcock makes his most exciting scenes. Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father...
Spring brings a touch of the old "Dial" to the Progressive in the bold and amusing woodcuts by John Holabird with which the April issue is generously illustrated. The cover is briefly perplexing. Three fomidable females in antique garb and with Amazonian mutilations march against a pale vermilion background of disordered classicism. In a Student Union publication, one thinks, what would this mean? Certainly not England, France and the United States going out to defend democracy? Perhaps the arts and sciences fleeing a world which topples under the assaults of imperialist...