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...Mitchel, widow of New York's late Mayor: " It was reported that in Manhattan, at the height of the gaieties of a Russian ball, a toy balloon, playfully 'touched with a lighted cigarette, exploded, set fire to my hair. Major William Kennelly threw a napkin over the blaze, extinguished it. Other guests at my table were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Miss Aladeleine Liebert, daughter of Gaston Liebert (French Minister in New York)." Patrick Cardinal Hayes: "My first unecclesiastical speech since returning to my archdiocese was delivered to 4,000 postal employes. To them I said...
...supposed configuration was a mere chimney blaze originating in the fire place of Room 56, on the top floor of Matthews, occupied by W. M. Powell '26 and H. B. Seares 2E.S. Not giving the matter much thought, they had allowed the fireplace to become filled with paper. Evidently some one throw a match or cigarette into the mass of rubbish, which quickly flared up and ignited soot in the chimney. Neither Powell nor Seares could be found when the excitement subsided...
Finally the constricted English village whose smug hyprocrisy has been shattered by the angel decides he must go. He does, in an Elijah-like blaze of glory, being burnt while saving the housemaid's brat. Thereupon everything turns out to be just a dream of a country vicar, going up in smoke...
Flaming Barriers seems a notable attempt at leisurely comedy which misses fire. It misses fire until the last few hundred feet, when a forest conflagration banishes the leisurely plot and burns the whole thing in a blaze of melodrama. The fire enables Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss...
Because of the machinery destroyed and the value of the stock of pine boards, the loss was estimated at about $100,000. When the blaze was under control, a Salvation Army truck distributed coffee and sandwiches to the firemen...