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...Children love block printing. They love the tarry smell of the sticky ink. They love the rolling and the pressing. The cutting satisfies like whittling on the oldtime school desk...
...metropolitan melodramas reach their end. It is also a place where poor people can get complete medical service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting rooms; tenement mothers cursing their offspring like truck drivers; dozing cops on guard at the bedsides of laid-up malefactors; a sign in the Accident Ward: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS...
...better position to write such a book than Gustav Regler. A leftish German émigré writer, Regler was one of scores of salon Bolsheviki who, drawn like flies by the smell of blood, swarmed down on Spain in 1936. There he ran into his great & good friend, Matei Jalka Lukacz, former Hungarian officer, former defender of the Marxist faith in matters esthetic for Linkskurve (Left Curve), the most influential German Marxist literary magazine. In Spain Lukacz (General Paul in The Great Crusade) was general of the Eleventh and Twelfth International Brigades. He quickly made Author Regler (Albert...
Unfortunately, after the elements had been stirred and let simmer, the residuum didn't quite jell. Ernest Truex as the paterfamilias, Newton Fuller (who always wanted to live in the country) is well chosen, though his reiterated exhortation of "Just smell that air!" brings back memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter...
...young Canadians about to be conscripted, say to American youth: "Learn to fight, but keep your weather eyes open for idealists" from Europe-they smell of blood! And we hope we come in with you soon, to make this North America safe and to hell with Europe...