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Americans who see this film will get an inkling of what sort of national war effort by the U. S. would be necessary to face the German Army or to help Britain to do so. The film is also playing in Brooklyn, North Bergen, N. J., Chicago...
...world today who best understand the power of words as weapons of warfare. Their techniques are different. Hitler uses words as poison gas; Churchill uses them as a broadsword. Yet he, too, can be cunning. Last May he wrote a letter to Benito Mussolini couched in the sort of language Captain John Smith might have used to a savage chieftain...
Docile, Shrewd, Smart. Ten years in the U. S. have put Lily Pons and the English language on a footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed...
...Herald is 100 years old. Though an afternoon paper, with a circulation of only 240,000, it is a sort of London Times in miniature. The "Murdoch press" has tentacles in three of Australia's six States, boasts a combined (daily & Sunday) circulation of more than 1,040,000-which is considerable on a continent of 7,000,000 inhabitants. But Sir Keith, except for a small interest in the Sydney Sun, has no newspaper holdings in New South Wales-a section as important in Australia as the Eastern coast...
...wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...