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¶ Correspondents who had meanwhile viewed a pre-showing of Dawn reported that, as displayed to them, the execution of Nurse Cavell was not thrown on the screen at all, but was simply to be inferred from the agonized expression on the face of the German priest who administered last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

¶ Members of the Cabinet kept their fingers crossed and individually refused invitations to a preview of Dawn. Collectively they chose an anonymous & mysterious "technical advisor" who reported, according to a Cabinet announcement, that the execution scene in Dawn unfolds as follows:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

¶ Commenting emotionally on the above terse report, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain cried to the House of Commons: "I am speaking as an English gentleman upon what I think is an outrage on humanity. . . . I believe this [film] account of the execution to be fully apocryphal [i. e. fictitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

The title of an issue and the contents within often show a wide divergence. For instance, a Vaudeville Number may deal with various forms of the theatrical and in nine cases out of ten there are violations of the general tone of the issue. It is pleasing to see that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around World Number Triumph--Zenith Reached in Lampoon Humor | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

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