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Charles Boyer is a past master of the smooth-talking, Continental style of love-making. He's been given cinematic chances to practice his technique on practically everybody from Austrian princesses to Hungarian dairy-maids. In "Hold Back the Dawn," he sets to world on an American school-teacher; his skill, incidently, is undiminished...
With some very effective acting especially on the part of Miss de Haviland as Hollywood's notion of what school-teachers are like. "Hold Back the Dawn" turns out to be one of the better pictures of recent months. It's well paced, mature entertainment...
...Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
...Daddy") Kung, Finance Minister and Vice Premier. In June Dr. Kung, who dearly loves to address conferences, herded together an earnest conclave of 250 local officials from all over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices and dugouts, Kung's bomb-battered underlings pieced together the machinery of China's greatest reform in centuries. Chiang Kai-shek quietly increased the local gendarmes all through Szechwan, just in case there was trouble...