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Meantime devious negotiations were going on for their release, each side trying to out-Orientalize the other. At one point Manchukuoan troops attacked the bandit lair, and in the confusion the captives made their second break for freedom. But they were all caught before they had gone far. As the chase grew hotter the bandits took to land, dragged their prisoners with them on nightly forced marches. Finally, five and a half months after their capture, the ransom was paid and the three Britons were released...
Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...major interest. Dimmed by the frequency of the uprisings there have been, nevertheless, heroic struggles and suffering in the glamorous country south of the Rio Grande. Though obviously idealized and sentimentalized, "Viva Villa" is a stirring portrayal of the events centering about the Madero government and that fascinating bandit, Pancho Villa. The flogging and tortures by which the Diaz regime kept the peons in subjection arouse the anger of Villa and inspired by Madero he opens revolt against the government. After much bloody fighting Madero is installed as President, but his program of social reform divides his ranks. Pascal...
...Yemen Arabia, converging on Sana, the walled white mountain capital of Yemen One moved eastward, from the Red Sea port of Hodeida that Ibn Saud's men captured last fortnight. One moved westward from the great central desert toward Sana. The third drove down from the border bandit land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains by cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam...
...Paul police cars roared through the streets hunting for a bandit car reported seen with bullet holes in its windshield and rear windows. ¶In Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Federal agents swooped down on a hospital to seize Dillinger's pal, George ("Baby Face'') Nelson whose presence was reported by an amateur sleuth. They found the patient to be a traveling salesman for a correspondence school, taken ill on the road...