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Sometimes their officers had to tongue-lash them into action. But unseasoned white troops had also gone through that first paralyzing terror of jungle combat...
Guatemala resembles a neat, well-run model prison under President Jorge Ubico, who thinks that he looks like Napoleon and postures accordingly. Foreign interests find him cooperative, admire the trembling honesty of his minor officials. Guatemala's atmosphere of all-pervading terror is probably the worst in Latin America...
Even more interesting than many of the pictures were the Independents' titles and price-tags. Samples: The Startling Discontinuity of Spatial Existence ($750), / Have Lived ($125), Death to the Fascist Snake ($150), Terror ($200), My Wife (not for sale). But there was nothing as startling this year as Alida Conover's picture of a cow on fire a dozen years...
...turn this silky swatch of cruelty and suffering into dramatically coherent, steadily intensifying terror takes considerable style in the staging, and gets a lot of it from everyone involved, especially from Cinemactress Bergman. She wears her bustled gowns in a way to set off the flagrantly beautiful interiors of her home. The role's extremes of neurotic desperation are beyond healthy Miss Bergman, and, wisely, she never attempts the babbling hysteria or shrieking rages that made Judith Evelyn's performance the sensation of its first season on Broadway. But she brings fine and passionate insight to her gentler...
Died. William Ellery Leonard, 68, longtime agoraphobiac, poet (Two Lives), professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; of a heart ailment; in Madison. In his autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced...