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...whole or in part, from No. 23 Wall St.? These were questions of policy, not of fact, which the country rather than the Senate committee would have to answer. Though they obviously cannot have it both ways, radicals and half-baked liberals talk in one breath about bankers' "plots" to run the country ruthlessly, and in the next breath they denounce capitalism because it lacks a plan -a "plot" - for running the country at all. But a bankers' "plot" to run the country-or the lack of it- is a very difficult thing to prove, even...
...River Falls she asks for the $1,000, much to Muldoon's chagrin. After the usual ups and downs in the film capital she is promised a big part, but just then her sweetheart from New Jersey appears. Goldie renounces her career, leaving her producers, Muldoon and the plot...
...monotone because it uses the German institution for the education of Prussian army officers' daughters as the only background for the whole film. With the faithfulness of attention to detail which characterizes German cinema production. "Maedchen in Uniform" is alive with genuine emotion and a well-defined and exacting plot structure. There are many touches of the theatre from the entrance of the orphan Manuela into the school to the closing scene in which Fraulein von Beruburg is chosen spontaneously as the natural leader by the acclaim of the children for the understanding and gentleness, while the sternold principal...
There is not much plot to most men's lives, and the ending is invariably "un-happy." But few novelists attempt a complete picture of even one individual career. Since the main outline is universally identical, writers do not concern themselves so much with total similarities as with partial differences. Author Fallada's case-history is of a young German couple whose developing plight is echoed everywhere today throughout the western world; but his Teutonic tones give the well-known story a kind of foreign freshness...
Both the performance of Colin Clive and Miss Hepburn are tremendously sincere. Each maintains the high standard of emotional continuity demanded by the plot to a finish which though unfortunately crude in form in none the less powerful. Because it deals with a type of character usually avoided by the movies and because the author has attempted realism instead of melodramas, "Christopher Strong" may not provoke the popularity of a more blatant production. Katharine Hepburn, nevertheless, remains a starting and brilliant figure. With the aid of Colin Clive she succeeds in making "Christopher Strong" a fine piece of work...