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...means the first direct action taken by labor in Norway, the strike topped off a long series of incidents. In January a string of German warehouses were fired. In March the main aqueduct in Oslo was cut. The Germans have had repeated trouble keeping the important Bergen-Oslo railroad open. Mysterious fires, destroying German goods, continually break out all over the country...
Military Courtesy and Customs of the Service (20th Century-Fox) has everything: a plot, Hollywood actors, props and plenty of action. It is a Grade-A Production. Opening with shots of crowds milling through a subway, it moves on to the lyrical rhythm of a symphony orchestra's string section. Purpose: to show what can be done by people who are willing to work together...
Although the Harvard Varsity eleven faces its toughest schedule in years minus the services of Charlie Spreyer, first-string fullback who has been called by Uncle Sam, and Bud Waldstein and Stan Durwood, two capable reserves who went on pro after finals last year, the Crimson outlook is growing brighter day by day as Coach Dick Harlow whips a number of rapidly-improving Sophomores into shape as reserves, and a sheaf of men from the injured list return to active duty today...
Think what that means, you 90 per cent of last year's upperclassmen who are still tied to the apron strings of Mother Fortune! It means that the College Graduate, a hitherto highly exploited commodity that used to drug the market a hundred and fifty thousand strong every year, now has ten per cent more bargaining power! Instead of 150,000 young world-changers, all string-pulling, relative-bothering, contact-casting, desperately making appointments to impress 150 personnel managers, the situation will practically be reversed. And why? Because the national emergency has cut you down to 148,500 world-changers...
Dvorak: Quintet in E Flat Major (Prague String Quartet with Richard Kosderka, second viola; Victor; eight sides). Czech Dvorak's U.S. visit in the 1890s inspired this and other "American" works (From the New World, "American" Quartet, etc.), in which Negro and Indian themes are always on the verge of doing a polka. Good first recording...