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...means of reaching the peoples behind the Iron Curtain, Flanders suggested the seemingly ridiculous device of the free balloon, dropping pictures and simple reading matter at intervals as it floats over the enormous areas of European Russia...
Blood & Cobwebs. Envy was a green-skinned wraith with a nest of snakes in its heart. Pride was a big-bosomed balloon about to burst-presumably, with pride...
...Bill Dunkle, who is bringing with him his Promenaders. These people will run through several authentic square dances. The high point of the entertainment will be the first performance this season of the Krokedilloes, College singing outfit, who will later lead everybody in group singing. A gals gift showering balloon dance will really top off the evening, with many valuable souvenirs awaiting lucky dancers...
...used this perception to shore up a plot which many people thought confusing. In Michael Roemer's story, which admittedly rests on "certain basic incongruities," characters and situations refuse to act predictably: a sad-eyed suicide breaks off knifing himself in a graveyard to retrieve a little girl's balloon; the hero loses his girl to his boss, and finds her married to the boss's chauffeur. Roemer has tried to knit the pace and problems of contemporary life into the limitations of a silent film; disunity and exaggeration result...
...Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international understanding...