Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is, incidentally, a thrilling story--Gary Cooper will fit well into the role of Robert Jordan. The dialogue is surprisingly effective, translated almost literally, as it is, from the Spanish. The picture of war-wracked Spain has an authentic air--there are heroes, villains, and...
Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry and other Midlands towns got smacked sharply but sporadically. So did Scotland. The character of the raiding was definitely more psychological than material. Some raiders swooped to machine-gun trains and villages, but not where British fighting planes could catch them at it.
> AP's Rome bureau head, Salvatore Cortesi, as a joke gave the name of Pope Pius X to AP's treasurer as a business reference. His Holiness duly received a letter asking for information, told Cortesi he would give him a good character.
There is little of personality involved in this choice. Both of the candidates are competent and hard-working men; both are of the highest character; both have kept their records free from charges of corruption, bossism or machine politics. But here the similarity ends. The two contestants represent ideals and...
John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (United Artists) is a dreamy, reverent screen translation of four one-act plays about the sea by Eugene O'Neill. Preceded by enthusiastic rumors heralding it as the best picture since The Informer, it opened in the situation of a celebrated...