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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Museum tradition that have not been revived since the war are the Harvard Dramatic Club's Christmas passion play, and the goldfish in the courtyard pond. But the building's remaining activities and inhabitants are as diverse as its styles of architecture. Classes in German, Swedish, and Norwegian share the rambling classrooms under the eaves on the third floor with the microphones and wire recorders of Professor Packard's speech department. The second floor is inhabited by an organ, one of the few in the country whose sound approaches that of the type used by Bach. The organ got there...
There was one man last week who did not share in the high hopes for a lasting settlement. In his pleasant brick villa near Leiden, lean Bertho van Suchtelen liked to dream of the old days when he was governor of Sumatra East Coast-days to him of peace and order in the East Indies under the good Queen's kindly rule. When The Netherlands' Queen Mother Emma died, van Suchtelen had remained for a full hour before her wreathed picture in rigid mourning pose...
...sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share of the dollar market...
...occasional game of billiards. He goes almost everywhere with a bolstering entourage of yesmen, who run his errands and remind him at frequent intervals that he is terrific. In 1941 he married Showgirl Joyce Mathews, a striking blonde who got a Reno divorce six years later. Still friendly, they share custody of an adopted daughter, 3½year-old Victoria, on whom he lavishes deep affection...
Like most films of its breed (e.g., Colonel Blimp), Guinea Pig has an earnest and sometimes moving integrity. Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...