Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Currently there are slightly less diphtheria, infantile paralysis, measles and typhoid in the U. S. than at this period last year, and slightly more meningitis, scarlet fever. Smallpox also has increased considerably in 1929. But very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...
...Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence...
...that this heat, or something, made Director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity. The characters are never properly identified; the flashbacks into their lives are jerky and incomplete. Best shot: the evangelist going crazy and running out into the desert to die...
...Die Meistersinger (German). It is hard to tell whether the story of the cobbler and the city clerk of Nuremberg who loved a girl who loved neither of them would have been better or worse if Wagner's immortal but cinematically difficult music had been recorded around it. The poetry, of course, is in the music rather than the anecdote. This poetry is lost, but the silent Meistersinger moves with a light-footedness impossible in grand opera. Clearly these capable German actors like their. material and understand it. They play the old roles slyly, fast and broadly -the whimsical...
...that to save his life she must sign a paper denying her love for Rodolfo. She complies. The paper reaches Rodolfo and he, grief-crazed, seeks her in her cottage. Together they drink poison from a glass of lemonade, sing loudly of their love despite most awful agony, die...