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James's own first choices, harking back to the days when his father taught him classic circus numbers, are probably his trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...
...Famed among Fokine's early followers were Nijinsky, Mordkin, Adolph Bolm, and Pavlova, for whom he created "The Dying Swan." Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, et...
Office Soldier. Itagaki matured in an army which was singularly selfless, yet afforded wide scope to men of his particular stamp. He was not a great fighting man. In fact, in 1938 at the famed battle of Taierhchwang (TIME, April 11, 1938 et ante), the Chinese made a military fool of him, trapping his forces and killing 25,000 Japanese in a battle which may yet go down as one of the determining conflicts of history...
...Delta Kappa, which for 31 years has drawn a sharp color line, manfully erased it last week. Observing that if their country's black-brown-yellow allies were good enough to die for they were good enough to live with, Phi Delta Kappans decided to admit Negroes, Chinese, et al. as fellow members...
These savage episodic passages receive the full benefit of Producer Strand's sensitive, pointed camera work, and of the remarkably natural performances of Fred Johnson (farmer), Art Smith (labor spy), Housely Stevens (sharecropper), et...