Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1948, Tokyo, T�ky� The Black Arr Wlouis Hayward a and Janet Blair Robert Louis Stevenson s version of Knighthood in Flower is the concern of this rather weighty but ultimately entertaining melodrama in costume. Hayward is the Young scion who returns from the wars of the roses to find his mansion in the hands of former relatives now treacherous foes. Miss Blair still of the musical comedy is the former enemy s daughter. They fall in love. The entire affair is obvious and expected and enjoyable. The Climax is a rather inexpensively contrived tourney in. Which All the implements of medieval Battle Are used cons ecu i timely to lavish effect. Elyj Virja 1936 olympic games of d better put this on your must list whether you re inter ested in sports or not for those of you who Don t like them the film will be a rewarding experience of pure visual line expertly edited and emotionally gripping for sports fans it will be the most Complete record of athletic events Ever assembled. The entire show is four hours Long but has been divided into two sections showing the opening ceremonies and the Field and events the second showing the swim Ming Arica miscellaneous events. The first is by far the better and it is this Section which is reviewed below the second tending to bog Down in places through both Are Worth while seeing but the second is not a work of Art. Though made a 1936," in pre War and definitely nazi Berlin the flint7 contains almost no glorification of the German athletes and is eminently t impartial in its treatment of the events More through Superb photo Graphy it captures on the screen the very essence of sport the tension the magnificent play of sheer muscle i and the teen an d nerve wearing com j petition. A incongruous.,combination of German dialogue and japanese titles in both films which will play separately in various theatres of the Fec seems at first bewildering. This effect is rather abetted than relieved by a lengthy symbolic beginning in Greece in which trick photography and miniature work Are used in a somewhat arty but quite Beautiful manner. After the first five minutes however the picture picks you up bodily and does t release you until the final scenes. You Don t notice the titles after that and the names and numbers in German seem both familiar and understandable. The most brilliantly photographed unit in the film is the night pole vaulting Section in the first part where Long focus and slow motion shots Are used almost exclusively. The. Camera hovers Over the bar and As an athlete throws himself Over it the most minute change of expression is noticeable the failures Are actually painful the successes exhilarating. Probably however the most thrill ing Section of the film is the Mara Thon which comes at the end of the first Section. How some of the shots were taken to imagine. From the Jaunty beginning to the exhausted conclusion the Marathon is filmed in every one of its phases. As the race continues and exhaustion be gins to Tell. On the runners whose faces through Long distance. Camera work fill the entire screen As the athletes one by one drop out the dead tired nausea of the contestants is almost communicable. When the Winner lots slowly stadium again one s first impulse is to cry one by. One the exhausted run ners arrive Back at their starting Point some almost camera objectively and skilfully Cap Tures the reaction of each revealing the most profound and characteristic of. All human emotions. Much 6 the Success of the flan is due to the expert editing of Lenir Rei Fen Stahl but tie laurels go to the staff of cameraman who were Able through technical virtuosity to capture and maintain it All on the screen. Donald Richie file and Don t forget by pfc Larry Sakamoto staff writer a guest columnist in i met my Mother for the first time in ten years last week Fet her Home in a Tihy. Village of Sta maruishi Kumasi pop a Yushu the. Reunion was Days rolled into i to be Pear my Mother. There i were Many stories told Dur ing my five Day of families Back Home of relatives and of my soldiering hrs rope the night was Short for both of us. " the next morning when the Sun was climbing into the sky Mother and i went to visit my father who was buried in a family plot at Ozu �. In foot. Emotion which swept Over me,.v myi Mother was in her late seventies to her straight backhand Good health 1 were a sight. To. tiring three hour night hike from the Sta Ilion to the Mountain Village was for gotten the. Moment i saw her. Y while Mother lived through the pacing of the enlisted in the army to come to Japan i when we lighted an Uge fitly. Placed it was a smoker from the thin film of smoke cur led i Ward Happy childhood memories unfolded. The purpose of my visit wag com plete i had rejoined my Mother americans from Japan. By Bradford Smith the United states attitude toward Oriental and other non caucasian races can make or break her As the Leader of world civilization Accord ing to Bradford Smith s americans from Japan. The Book is a careful and readable study of the Nisei americans of japanese ancestry. It deals especially with wartime and postwar treatment of the Nisei which was generally fair and successful in Hawaii often brutal blundering and unsuccessful on the Continental . Pacific coast where even War wounded Nisei soldiers sometimes returned to find their Homes burned or to be shot at by their neighbors. Smith has found the Nisei almost without exception to be Superior citizens in spite of widespread discrimination. Their almost 100% loyalty was severely strained by their forced evacuation from California Oregon and Washington. The author offers evidence to support his charge that economic selfishness More than military necessity was responsible for the evacuation. But things Are a Little better for the Nisei so face Tribu lations Smith reports. Many have found Homes and jobs without Dis-1 Crim nation in midwestern and Eastern cities. And the thousands who returned to the West coast. Found that at the e beginning of 1945 the West had beef four to. On against the japanese. A -.year. Later they were four to Ofle in favor of fair and. Etoal treatment it is still Hardy Otmany Raineri cans to look at Aii Oriental and see 3a.,m an to know that he is moved by the same impulses. Basically and cherishes the same. Desires Smith concludes. � yet until this happens America Cahoot become a Leader the whole world can accept. In Many places in the world today America is no longer the Beacon of equal Opportunity that once shed the Light of its Promise across the Earth. Men particularly of the coloured races Are turning. To communism in Dis appointment Over what seems to them our failure. Yet the solutions Are in our hands we have the human and natural resources to make a civilization to guide the world our impediments Are personal greed pampered individualism and Spiri Tual starvation. The Oriental Vir tues and the Oriental vie a of life As aesthetic experience have much to suggest. To unlike Host nations we have the carriers of that culture within our own Borders. Our strength if we but knew it is in our minorities. It is a strength we have " scarcely tapped.1 -. A Friend newly arrived from Holly " Wood startled us the other Day whence met her at Tokyo she was bearing dark glasses As is sex petted of anyone from the movie capital. These glasses seemed a bit f it was t until americans from Japan was marred for this Reader by an apparently overdrawn foreward by Louis Ada Mic sneering at the tolerance of almost All americans. Adamic believes thav in ninety Odd instances out of a Hundred when an Ameri can in these Middle decades of the twentieth Century is tolerant it Means simply and exactly that he. Refrains from blurting out his doubts about your fitness to inhale the same air with him. As prac tired in the ethnically and religiously Complex United states tolerance is controlled suppressed Covert in i United press j r Korea j Horace Bristol a much needed volume this superlatively illustrated Book fills a Long standing Gap on the shelf of documentary literature on the far East. The author at present on the staff of Fortune Magazine has both taken the photos used and supplied the highly intelligent commentary which gives a rewarding Cross Section of korean life manners and aspirations. Subtitled a photographic report on a country whose Fate is being decided today and some of the people. Who will decide it the introduction states both Russia and the United states Are Well aware of the Geo graphic potentialities of South Korea. Russia has demanded that the Arner icons leave the f. Ton has not asked the russians to leave Northern Korea for the simple reason that the communists have intention of leaving. Be tween the two antagonistic ideological enemies a crushed and impotent j Korea fights feebly for its integrity.". The Book dedicated to the korean people shows clearly and effectively the present state of Korea. Printed in Tokyo this year of american paper using american in to the handsome volume is at present available s but it is hoped that of second and third editions will soon make it available for All in the far East command the author first decided to write the Book when in the Seoul pm he saw a dozen rather inferior postcards sell ing for four dollars. He thought that for a much less Price the present volume Sells for Only $2.75he could give much More. As the Book pro Gressed however it , much. More important than a Mere souvenir it rapidly became. A. Sociological do Clinent of the first order. _ the Book Lias a double Appeal first to the thousands of people who just want a picture Book of someplace they be been but More important is its Appeal to serious students of sociology contemporary affairs and the. Far East. In each category the Book is a must. Donald Richie after eyes Are fully concealed. We predict a great Boom in the Pey gadgets in Tokyo. They cd to about 135 Bucks and in be obtained by mail from any Hollywood drugstore a adv to. But it s time to fix the fut Suka just How different they were. Hangover specs they Are made on the principle m Tow answers to ten tips i. Ca. 9 6. B & 7. B a 9to w y Fot Yowho and red rimmed Mornin Stan for sri rpt figr
