Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1942 — Page 6

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Miss Dietrich claimed the internal revenue collector took $60,000 too much by failing to take into consideration a matter of community property she had listed with ‘her husband, Rudolph Sieber. Miss Carroll sought return of $9,000 which she claims she donated to.a French orphanage and which the government refused to allow as a deduction.

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by RICHARD LEWIS

The World at War’

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an assortment of movie men, marine and navy officers and newspaper men. It was a tense, silent crowd, as movie crowds go, but now and then the tension became too great and some of the boys let go, cussing, not loud, but deep. They were watching the U.:S. government's first

feature-length chronicle of the current conflict, “The World at War.”

It got them. Let's have it straight. They weren't cussing at the film, but with it. It is a propaganda film for our side and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. Is it effective? Well, it has to be a pretty good fire to get a fireman excited. These movie men are not exactly softies when it comes to looking at the products they sell. Many years of seeing pictures from the box office standpoint have immunized them against the ordinary emotional devices of the

trade. And sometimes I suspect.

they view all pictures with as much enthusiasm as a shoe department buyer looking at a new style in men’s autumn footwear. “The World at War” made some of these men angry. I don’t know what the navy and marine officers thought about it, but. it’s a safe guess that they felt the same way, even if they didn't express themselves. I guess we all felt about the same way. That is the test of

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lt Began at Mukden

, THE FILM contends that in the realities of international power politics, we have been at war since the Mukden incident in 1931, when “Japan clawed Manchuria out of the body of China.” It was our war, the commentator says, when the feeble concert of nations, evolved from the wraith of President Wilson's shattered dream, began to break down at

. Geneva. First Japan. Then Italy. The

story skips to 1935 when the Italians in their tanks, armored cars and planes boldly - charged down the Ethiopian plain to slaughter natives armed with spears. There is Musso. There is Ciano and the “brave” legions of Rome which were one day, in this same war, to become the prisoners of the men from Britain and Australia. Then Spain, the dress rehearsal for the shape of things to come. The fascists tried out their weapons of conquest on the side of the falange; the Russians gave theirs

a workout on the side of the re=.

publicans. The democracies creat ed non-intervention, which they alone observed. ” 2 #

And After Poland

THERE THEY are, on the screen: the Japs, the Italians and finally the Germans. Aus tria, the Sudetenland and then all of Czecho-Slovakia. And then in a parenthetical clip of film, Chamberlain, Daladier and Hitler signing the pact of Munich (“peace in our time”) with the comical fatboy, Goering looking on. : Then, Poland after the Russian pact. These are Nazi propaganda films taken by the cameras of the reich during the blitz on Poland. They are remarkable and horrible. Past the bodies of dead

Polish women ride the proud, .

boyish faces of the “master race.” These films were shown in South America to intimidate Latin Americans. Never a superman dies in these pictures, nor, in the blitz through the low countries, into France. At the evacuation of Paries, allied film begins coming off the reel. Those pictures are tragic. ; There is a shot of one of th mothers who has put her little boy on the refugee train to the south, turning her smiling face away from the tot as he recedes from her view and uttering a cry of anguish.

And After Dunkirk THE HITLERIAN drama of the “peace,” signed in the railroad car in. which a beaten second reich had capitulated a quarter of a century before appears on the screen. In ‘these shots, ' Hitler

looks almost as much like Chars .

lie Chaplin’s “Great Dictator” as Chaplin does. Dunkirk rises out of the ocean and the first resistance begins to take form. There is an aerial view of the English channel dotted with craft of all sizes, sailing toward the thin, white line of England on the horizon. The R. A. PF. charges in from. the clouds to do battle with luftewaffe. On the beaches for miles, the blackened muzzles of anti aircraft guns, wrecked trucks, tanks, machine guns lay in an impressive scrap heap. ’ The ‘voice of Lord “Haw-Haw” is heard pleading with the Brite ish to surrender. The pattern of fighting back is America is becom= At the beginning, you have heard Ameri= cans debating and the appeals of

the isolationists sound strangely

fantastic. America is arming, Russia has come into the war, Britain has

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‘recovered. And out of the con-

quered ‘appear legions of men as though from nowhere forming battalions to fight back. : The pattern of aggression has

been shown and the pattern of

victory is clear. : ® 8 = - THIS IS America’s first propa-

ganda film. Ironically enough, it achieves its maximum effect

through the episodic use of enemy propaganda film. : Written and produced by Same uel Spewack, noted war corres= pondent, it has a finer commen=tary by Paul Stewart and an ex« traordinary musical score by Gail Kubik, conducted by Alexander Smallens. Last week, this department urged movie-goers to see the navy’s “Battle of Midway” which opens tomorrow at the Indiana, Loew's and the Lyric and at the Circle on Friday. It was the first time we had ever made such & recommendation. : . We are making this recommen=dation for “The World at War.” As far as is known now, only one print of “The World at War” will be available to Indianapolis. It will be played at the Indiana theater Sept. 23 on a double bill with “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” It shouldn’t be missed.

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