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...Eugene O'Neill's lengthy, incestuous Mourning Becomes Electra, lamented the fact of movie censorship. Los Angeles Times Drama Editor Edwin Schallert reported that "substantially this is what [she] told me": "Really deep consideration of the issue of sex . . . has no chance to be translated onto the screen under the present system of censorship. Yet at the same time, in musicals and other lighter entertainment, you find sex exploited in an intriguing, inveigling, 'peeking' sort of way that is much more meretriciously alluring than honest dramatic studies and impressions...
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...
...good war picture is a fine thing to see, but one which is obviously a large piece of Hollywoodized propaganda is difficult to stomach. Perhaps it's the monotony of seeing one atrocity after another dragging its bloody stump across the screen, but this corner just thinks the show is poorer than average...
...actor started composing at 18, modeled his work after his idols Bach and Handel, in 1942 orchestrated McDowell's Sea Pieces (originally for piano). Said Barrymore of Sevitzky: "We don't know each other and yet are good friends. He sees me one day on the screen and I listen the next to his recordings and we understand each other...
...complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke the screen. Men quickly fire into blindness, take quick cover, each moving jerkily with a quality of loneliness in the midst of action with which no loneliness of peace is comparable...