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...experienced generals from Russia, who have played a much greater part in the victories of the People's Army than the 5,000-odd Soviet Red Army soldiers now in Spain, are changed every few months, operate mostly under false names, keep in the background as much as possible. Many have not been of Russian nationality, one is known to have remarked with a grin, "I have five perfectly valid passports, one American." Veteran New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews names as non-Spanish Leftist Generals Kleber, Lukacs. De Gorieff (also called Van Rosen), Gall, Walter...
...melodrama is England's roly-poly, impish-eyed Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent). Last year, flushed with cinema success and much hearty beef-eating, Director Hitchcock decided to try one of his thrillers against the placid background of the English countryside. Said he: "I want to commit murder amid babbling brooks." The result teams 18-year-old Nova Pilbeam and Play Actor Derrick de Marney in a melodramatic hodge-podge that lacks the vivid outlines and clear characterizations of previous Hitchcock films, but is, nevertheless, a fair sample of Hitchcock...
...member of this board gains an intimate knowledge of newspaper life, and gets practical experience that will prove of value in later life regardless of his profession. The CRIMSON is a working business organization and lets the board member get a "sound background in the elements of publishing, advertising, publicity, merchandising, selling, and the problems of circulation and printing...
...advocate of democracy. Theodore Newton is as grim, as honest, and as frigid as the role of the communist demands. Claudia Morgan is attractive and uneasy, and whether the uneasiness is in the actress or the character, it all contributes to the proper dramatic effect. A prominent background stands behind the picture of these fighters in the form of Alexander Woolcott, who as a cynical marriage broker contributes to the play what humor it has. Since the ill-fated girl is one of his proteges, she relapses at the end into the tutelage of this good-natured sophisticate...
Laid against this background of Spanish disorder, Mr. Witt Among The Rebels is a deft little novel that can be read as a political study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene...