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...foremost artist of the modern German school, came to America from Germany in 1932, not an a political refugee, however, and is at present teaching at the Art Students League in New York. In his works he shown himself with great emphasis to be a social satirist, pacifist, radical, and an ant-Nazist, and before coming to America he was extremely bitter in portraying German life, especially the bourgeoisie class. Since his departure from his native land, however, he has become much milder in his treatment of subjects, perhaps because he has not yet learned American life and customs well...
...theme is a stimulating one, and handled with proper emphasis and directorial skill. One might wish to see the pacifist remain true to his ideals and declare once for all that, when it comes to war, the individual must assert himself even if it was contrary to the group. This is a vital problem, one of dramatic and almost necessarily tragic intensity, which "So Red the Rose" has introduced, but not fully developed...
...outstanding, if relatively short career, as a charming and rather giddy Southern belle metamorphosed into a fine character by many sorrows. Walter Connolly and Janet Beecher as her father and mother share honors only with Margaret Sulivan. And over Randolph Scott, under inspired direction, makes the role of the pacifist convincing. "So Red the Rose" is worth seeing not only because it has fine actors, is ably directed and beautifully photographed, but, more important, because it grapples with a living idea...
...longer the Pacifist or Socialist he once was, Mr. MacDonald is honestly Conservative in mind today. When he told Seaham last week that the Government must win in order to pursue their welfare work and social services, there were jeers, shouts of "The Government wants to be returned so as to build battleships...
...time to hold a snap election. The Labor Party split with a loud crack last week when Pacifist Lansbury resigned as Leader, declaring: "I personally cannot see any difference between mass murder organized by the League of Nations and mass murder. ... I have passed my seventy-sixth year, and younger men may carry on." In, as Leader of Labor pro tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between...