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Hitler showed how attacks on the Jews can be used as a prime device for promoting discord, inciting bitterness, destroying tolerance and ultimately overthrowing the basic principles of civil liberties and personal freedom. Last week, continuing to divide the nation, Hero Lindbergh attacked the Jews as being one of the "three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war.'' The other two groups: the British and the Roosevelt Administration...
...Basic Principles of Skiing (20th Century-Fox), like all skiing pictures, is a photographic natural. Made with veteran ski troops (see cut) it could be exhibited to any cinemaudience with profit. Despite its necessarily lengthy explanations, the film builds its own suspense right up to the end: some first-rate mountain shots of a ski patrol on reconnaissance. Nothing ever happens, but it seems about to. Well-scored is the musical accompaniment for the cross-country and downhill sequences...
Ickes cannot watch any spectacle for than a few minutes without comment, usually acidulous. First he chafed. Then his hackles rose. Finally he boiled over, blew his top. His basic point: the U.S. is going to run out of everything. He ran out of aluminum months before Big Ed Stettinius' materials division saw any real problem. He ran out of steel in January, although the President, Economist Gano Dunn and Stettinius were still insisting in February that the U.S. had of plenty of steel. In quick succession Harold Ickes then ran out of electric power, coal, transportation, railroad & shipping...
...hands of a lesser director than Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door) this theme might well have turned sour. By superb cinema artistry he raises it to the level of subtle, entertaining comedy without losing sight of its basic problem. That tour de force is a rare cinema triumph...
...expanding an experiment in small-town newspaper advertising for recruits. Test advertisements in Missouri, Iowa, Indiana doubled the monthly enlistment rate in those States, will soon appear in 13 more States (Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee). But the basic appeal is still the same: see the world...