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...though the conditions varied, the time element remained fairly constant. Minor pushes lasted four days to two weeks. (Their aim: a local objective, a test of the enemy's strength, a feint.) Major offensives lasted an average of two to four weeks (on the Vitebsk front, 19 days; Orel, 30 days; Smolensk, 25 days; the first offensive into Poland, 27 days; the thrust into Estonia, 21 days...
...This ime Kathie, niece of the landlord of the inn where the Prince abides during his stay at Heidelberg, is exceptionally attractive, besides having the other necessary qualities of a good soprano voice and acting ability. Laurol Hurley is a believable "heroine" and surely headlines the female element in the cast...
...fact... an assault ensues. The age range of the anti-Semitic hoodlums is 10 to 14. They travel in groups of two to ten. They roam the streets looking for little Jewish boys to assault and for Jewish property to desecrate. Because of the always-present anti-Jewish element in the assault, the situation, reasonably, cannot be described as ordinary juvenile delinquency...
...reawakened in millions of people, a recognition of the dignity and beauty of mature womanhood. It had also stumbled upon one of the richest box-office formulas and one of the greatest potential box-office figures in its 50 years of prospecting. Not knowing at first what a radioactive element it had in hand, Hollywood kept right on stumbling and immediately miscast Miss Garson. Of her next film, Remember, she says simply: "Let's not." Pride and Prejudice was a harmless excursion into literature, but in the Garson career it was a round trip. Blossoms in the Dust...
With Madame Curie, the new cinematic element embodied by Miss Garson is finally isolated. The Ideal Woman is at last presented in simple cinemapotheosis. Greer Garson is Her greatest, indeed Her exclusive, Prophet...