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...Ramparts We Watch," first full-length motion picture of the Luceditors, has been accused of beating the tom-tom loud and long for the war-dance of the interventionists. Actually the film's account of our entrance into World War I is remarkably accurate and unimpassioned, considering Yaleman Luce's personal and impassioned declaration of war on Chancellor Hitler. As a document of social history, the picture can be interpreted as a bugle call for War, Glory, and Unity or as the tragedy of a deluded and naive nation which sacrificed its life-blood to create the Treaty of Versailles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON MOVIEGOER | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Most people who know that George Sand (real name: Amantine Lucile Aurore Dudevant, nee Dupin) was a French novelist have seldom read one of her novels all the way through. This week appeared a full-length life of Authoress Sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roses & Cabbages | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Ramparts We Watch is MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature. Its name, and nothing else, comes from Major George Fielding Eliot's treatise on U. S. defense. In form it is the fullest flowering of two arts: the newsreel and MARCH OF TIME'S five-year-old discovery that people act like people, that the truest recreation of human beings is to be had by picturing people in the roles they play in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...York, eight other U. S. cities last week, hundreds of children and younglings seated themselves at pianos, pounded for dear life. Some had memorized as many as 20 pieces. Ear-weary judges, sitting behind screens so as not to fuss the youngsters. heard everything from The Happy Farmer to full-length concertos. The National Guild of Piano Teachers had been holding such local "Auditions" since last April. By next week, 10,000 piano students in 92 cities will have tinkled their stuff. Almost all will get certificates, suitable for framing. on which various colored seals and stars indicate ratings from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piano Tournament | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...editorial staff of the Bulletin has asked that competitors leave their names and addresses at the Alumni Bulletin offices in the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton Street, where they will receive complete details. Before June 8 they will be expected to submit a full-length sample column in their own style. The Bulletin will then select a small group to compete in the fall and will notify the successful competitors by letter late in the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Bulletin Begins Contest For Salaried Columnist's Post | 5/16/1940 | See Source »

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