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...daughters of an English diplomat (Wilfrid Lawson), can be told apart only when they part their hair on different sides. Within, frivolous, selfish Sylvina and gentle Martina are as different as black & white. When Martina falls in love with a young Englishman (Michael Redgrave) whom she encounters on an alp, Sylvina steps in, nabs him. A sailing spill drowns Sylvina, leaves Martina in possession of her sister's wedding ring, husband, lover, and life-and Actress Bergner with a psychological problem worthy of her steel...
...principal news in Baboona, this flaw is more than usually noticeable. No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships. Baboona is rather the record of a unique vacation. It shows Africa in friendly mood, swarming with gay pygmies, ingratiating birds, responsive game fish. Mount Kenya looks like a Swiss Alp on a postcard. The monkeys scratch themselves with holiday enthusiasm. Only the rhinoceroses are ugly, and even they waddle off with gentle indecision. Good shot: a group of amiable lions lolling around the carcass of a zebra...
...since last February, when his crag-climbing father slipped and fell to Death, has young King Leopold climbed an Alp. Last week, with the impatient winter sap of born Alpinists boiling in their veins, wavy-haired King Leopold and his svelte Swedish consort Astrid set out for their favorite Swiss mountaineering resort amid nationwide Belgian alarm...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...Kinchinjinga, 28,146 ft. Highest in the Western World: Mt. Aconcagua (Chile-Argentina), 23,080 ft. Highest in North America: Mt. McKinley, Alaska, 20,300 ft. Highest in the U. S. proper: Mt. Whitney, Calif., 14,501 ft. Highest in Europe: Mont Elbruz, Caucasus, 18,465 ft. Highest Alp: Mont Blanc, 15,781 ft. Pike's Peak...