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"A band swinging on a dias is like Babe Ruth swinging at home plate. It levels all the bumps of wealth and birth and makes all people free and equal. Maybe that's why Hitler and Mussolini and all the rest of the boys won't give it elbow room..."

"There are in the United States today, if statistics do not lie, some twelve million Negroes. The population of the Argentine is not so large, nor that of Holland, nor that of Sweden. Eight million of these dark Americans live in the South. In Georgia alone there are more than a million colored people...How do they live - these blacks in a country controlled by whites
Author Scott Nearing (1883 – 1983) was an American naturalist, educator and civil rights advocate.

Click here to read an article by Ralph Ellison concerning Black writers of the 1930s.

"I have known many Yanks, the majority of them nice boys...But, blimey, they don't know the first thing about love-making."

"Cary Grant is one of Hollywood's most vociferous spokesmen for glamour, but it hasn't gotten him anywhere. Between 1929 and 1937 he appeared with Glamour-Girls Jeanette MacDonald, Quenie Smith, Fay Wray, Lili Damitia, Carloe Lombard, Nancy Caroll, Sylvia Sidney, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, Elissa Landi, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Jean Harlow, Grace Moore, and Mae West, twice - but they didn't get him anywhere...Then he played a dead man."

Click here if you wish to read a magazine profile of Noël Coward.

Nuclear power................They're against it ("The China Syndrome").
Antisemitism...................They're against it ("Gentleman's Agreement").
Alcoholism......................They're against it ("Lost Weekend").
Racial segregation...........They're against it, but in 1915 they were for it ("Birth of a Nation".
One glance at this 1939 article and you'll be able to blame it all on the poet Archibald McLeish (1892 – 1982) who clearly advocated for political posturing in American movies.

"Whether eastern or western, the villain is never without a big black cigar. On the screen a big black cigar represents villainy; on the stage it represents General Grant."

Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith.

"It is the story of two extremely youthful officers in the American air service during the war. We can see them going through the training mill in Texas, dueling with a German 'circus' above the clouds, raking communication roads with machine-gun fire and finally facing each other in a terrific life-and-death struggle in the air....The two heroes are played, and played remarkably well, by Charles (Buddy) Rogers and Richard Arlen...Clara Bow, who appears as the saccharine heroine, is, I regret to say, not so good."

Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith.

"The first exhibition of Max Beckman's work since 1941 is currently being held at the Bucholz Gallery in New York. Director Kurt Valentin has assembled for this event important examples of Beckman's brush dating from 1939 to the present...Among the many drawings particularly remembered are a satirical 'Radio Singer' and a tongue-in-cheel 'Anglers', along with 'Head Waiters'."

From time to time, it was the practice of the German military to separate American Jewish soldiers from their fellows and transfer them to concentration camps.