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...Dragon Seed. Then big Ed had an inspiration: why not take the whole kit-&-kaboodle to New York for a typical American businessman's weekend in Manhattan? This proposal was received with mixed feelings. (Said the State Department's Leo Pasvolsky, "It is too frivolous!") But many delegates were keen to go, and pretty soon Host Stettinius had most of them aboard a plane, off for the big city. Naturally the secrecy was intensified-perhaps no Russian wanted Joseph Stalin to hear too many lush details of bouncing about in night clubs...
...York Herald Tribune pounced on the story, and soon the press had found the delegates-first on the ninth and tenth floors of the Waldorf-Astoria, then at Radio City Music Hall (the Rockettes and Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed), and finally, at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, where the world planners took ringside seats for the midnight floor show...
...Miniver" taught us about our British allies; "North Star" showed us the life of the Russians; and now "Dragon Seed" gives a highly effective presentation of the heroism of the Chinese people...
...Dragon Seed" ranks as one of the outstanding movies to come out of this war. It is notable for its message of courage and determination, for its characterization of our allies, the Chinese people, and for the intelligence and sensitivity of its plot and dialogue. A new China, a bold, indomitable China, is rising out of the blood and sweat of battle. The new China is intent on wiping ignorance from its shores. "Dragan Seed" portrays the beginnings of the movement in a sympathetic, inspiring...
...Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...