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...despatch was allowed to pass in which she was quoted as saying: "I go to Death or Victory. ... I feel as Joan of Arc must have felt, under divine inspiration! ... I shall cut their barbed wire fence with pliers and seize the salt with my own hands. . . . Neither jail nor Death hold any terrors...
...this time despatches at first reported that the British police officer asked Mrs. Naidu whether she would like to be sent back to her encampment in a comfortable limousine. India's matronly Joan of Arc was said to have voluntarily accepted, and, leaving her followers to trudge after the limousine, left the field of "Death or Victory" in pusillanimous, soft cushioned ease...
Song of the Flame (First National). Technicolor, elaborate staging, good Gershwin tunes and 5,000 voices have been assembled in this reproduction of a Broadway operetta. Bernice Claire is supposed to be a sort of Russian Joan of Arc; you are led to believe that the theme song she sings brings about the Revolution. It is extravagantly unreal, entirely out of the tradition of naturalistic cinema. Audiences who like operetta and audiences in the country who have never had much chance to decide whether they like it or not may find Song of the Flame to their taste. Others...
...insignificant figure in Europe is Dr. Smeral of Prague. He sits with the Communist contingent of 30 Deputies. He can throw an inkwell clear across the arc of Parliament at the Conservatives with fair accuracy.* But nobody in Czechoslovakia would pay serious attention to Dr. Smeral if his wife's maiden name had not been Dzhugashvili...
...monster current requires monster circuit breakers (switches). For currents of 220,000 volts, switches have had to be as large as water tanks' on apartment house roofs. It was necessary to immerse the breaker points in an oil bath of high insulating properties to smother the flashing arc when the circuit was broken. Frequently it was necessary to change the oil which was carbonized (made more conducting) by each arc...