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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1939
Page
1
Barnard Bulletin published semi weekly by Barnard College students for the Undergraduate Association. Contains editor names Florence Durrof a Naomi Lets hy Paylls Kenner and Elizabeth Smith with board and business roles. Subscription is $3 per year with 10 cent single copies. Printed as second class matter October 19 1928 at New York Post Office.
Barnard students rally behind a peace program and forum series after an enthusiastic reaction to a campus poll on the European war. The piece notes hopes for practical anti-war action and raises concerns about a Navy plan for invisible battleships and the morale of crew in a future ghostly fleet.
Readers discuss potential Barnard participation in a federal program to train civilian pilots. Several respondents support training for women pilots, noting examples abroad, while others fear aeronautics or prefer other fields. One voice suggests women could fill pilot roles in wartime.
A humorous note on military deception suggesting ethereal land forces and the unlikely use of giant mirrors or lipstick by government armies. The writer prefers a plainer plan and proposes arming the enemy with opera glasses that only magnify the ground.
A compilation of public views on civilian flight programs and aviation training. Comments range from enthusiasm for aviatrix dreams to concerns about safety and licensing, with reactions to headlines about war-time air combat.
The article notes a global stress era fostering minority solidarity and fraternity. A Broadway sighting shows a Black bootblack reading a Hebrew paper titled The Shepherd of Israel, illustrating possible cosmopolitan or idealistic attitudes amid public calamity.
A column extols Simon and Schuster Treasury of Art Masterpieces edited by Thomas Craven with full color plates from Giotto to modernists. It also praises Hyperion’s National Costumes featuring central European dress, with notes on peasant artistry and cultural attire.
A cinema notice praising Jamaica Inn directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Charles Laughton. The piece notes the Jamaica Inn tale of wreckers off the Cornish coast, Laughton’s dominant performance, and Hitchcock’s usual subtle approach which the reviewer feels is diminished by Laughton’s strong screen persona.
Katherine Hanly reports on I Met A Murderer a suspenseful motion picture praised for Hitchcockian technique. James Mason stars as the murderer Pamela Kellino satisfies in a restrained cast and Roy Kellino directs with understated artistry highlighting mood over action.
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