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Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds...
...morning when the new stripers will be announced. Just between us, let's speculate on Rehurek for Battalion Commander; Hoffman for Sub-Batt Commander, Bryan for Company 3 "Hep-ster," Wanvig to take over for Company 4, with Bergen and Harty for Company 3 Platoon Leaders, and Stallard and Moss for Company...
...knows or cares anything about the seriousness of the subject, the makers of the film have not included any of the dynamite implicit in a truly forthright treatment of the subject. There is no mention of segregation, of friction between Negro soldiers and white soldiers and civilians. But Carlton Moss, a Negro who wrote the film's script, was overall adviser for the production and acted in it, assured white friends who were discouraged by its mildness that the picture would mean more to Negroes than most white men could imagine...
Sneak-previews for Negro soldiers proved that Mr. Moss was right. At first the men, who have learned to expect veiled contempt in most Hollywood handling of Negroes, froze into hostile silence. But after 20 minutes they were applauding. For just about the first time in screen history their race was presented with honest respect. Many wanted to know: "Are you going to show this to white people?" Asked why, they replied: "Because it will change their attitude...
...Negro Soldier opens in a Negro church with the sermon of a Negro preacher (Carlton Moss). From its first moment, it is arresting. For the preacher is no Uncle Tom. He does not talk minstrel-show dialect or advise his flock that, for those who bear their afflictions meekly, there will be watermelon by & by, or the Hall Johnson Choir in the sky. He talks sober, unrhetorical English, and before long he is reading aloud (from Mein Kampf) some of Hitler's opinions about those "born half-apes." While he reads, the camera moves among his listeners, quietly contradicting...