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...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...
...Deadhead...
...Living Dead Man is aFrench film based on Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal. The amazing absurdities of the philosophical deadhead who would live, love and be irresponsible, somehow hold the screen version together in an amusing roll-and-tumble that is neither slapstick nor brilliant comedy. That Pirandello's satirical quibbles of intangibility should have been considered for picturization is even more astounding than the film's partial success...