The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

MOTION PICTURES AND WORLD COMMUNITY 35 to utilize the professional skills of artists from virtually every nation and race in the process. For example, Raymond Massey, a Canadian, is the screen's foremost Abraham Lincoln. Paul Muni, born in Lemberg, played the role of Juarez, the Mexican liberator. Luise Rainer, Austrian born, brought to millions throughout the world a vivid appreciation of the Chinese peasant mother in The Good Earth. Greta Garbo of Sweden became Russia's Anna Karenina, in Tolstoi's tragic story. Edward G. Robinson, an American, born in Rumania, played the role of Dr. Ehrlich, a German Jew. Jean Hersholt, the Dane, is the screen world's Dr. Christian. Katina Paxinou of Greece and Akim Tamiroff, of Russian descent, portray Pilar and Pablo — leaders of the Spanish Loyalist band in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Dr. Max Steiner, Viennese composer, wrote a four-hour musical score for Gone With the Wind in which a British girl played the Georgia heroine Scarlett O'Hara. Greer Garson, the British Mrs. Miniver of yesterday, becomes the Polish-French Eve Curie of today. Yes, American films have world casts and appear on world screens to a world audience. Finally, let it be remembered that the talking motion picture made its appearance only sixteen years ago — a scant four years before this world holocaust actually began with Japan's invasion of Manchuria — and, in a world torn asunder by unparalleled economic and political disorder, achieved its present international influence and world-wide usefulness during a period when other types of inter