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...date for a dance was demonstrated on a mass-production scale yesterday when two unacquainted Yardlings decided to go through the telephone book in search of prospective ladies to take to the Freshman dance...
...maneuvers suspended, ships and aircraft abandoned their formations to search all night for the bodies of the ten other members of the two ships' seven-man crews. Sadly next morning new CINCUS Claude Charles Bloch ordered the radio operators who were supposed to observe a war-time silence, to break it, announce to Washington and the world the worst airplane disaster in U. S. naval history...
...hating in The Bridal Crown to dramatize a spooky legend of guilt and redemption. Kersti (Aurora Bonney) trades her illegitimate baby to a witch in return for the crown which only virgins may wear at their wedding. After the wedding, the crown falls into a mill race and the search for it fishes up the dead child. The rest of the story concerns the fate of an essentially pure girl at the hands of an evil puritan community. Folklore, fantasy and mysticism clutter up the action, and moments of barebone tragedy give way to wobbling make-believe...
After many inquiries, and a search during two summers in the most likely museums of Europe, the man still remains unknown. But the work proves to be of the Flemish or Dutch school of the middle of the seventeenth century. This was a time when Flemish sculptors were in demand all over Europe from Italy to Scandinavia. In their vitality, realism and skill in execution, they were peculiarly fitted to express the temper of that epoch...
...laboriously reverent folk story of a people held in ritualistic bondage, governed in every phase of relationship by shibboleths, superstition, fear. Produced in Poland with native players as passionately sincere as if their own souls were involved. The Dybbuk presents a painstaking picture of the weary search for eternal peace by a people for whom the earth holds little, affords an insight into the absurd involvements that are the accretions of simple faith...