Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne (Jessie Matthews), assistant cinema critic on a Fleet Street paper, is assigned to cover the movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both...
...earth is flat...
...meat both on the hoof and in slaughter houses. All these inspectors are graduates of recognized veterinary colleges. Last week the Chief of the Bureau, Dr. John Robbins Mohler, who is celebrating his fortieth year in the service and who is one of the biggest employers of veterinarians on earth (800), went to Omaha to boast that "the U. S. has become the safest country in the world in which to engage in breeding and raising domestic animals...
...would have been surprising if The Spanish Earth had not turned out as well as it did. Everyone connected with it, largely liberal artists eager to contribute their talents to the cause of Spanish democracy, has a record of high achievement. Besides Author Hemingway, who wrote and recites the infrequent but unforgettably eloquent narrative lines, there were five other unusually meritorious contributors. Director Ivens and his photographer, John Ferno, won the National Board of Review's second award for a foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that...
...week, laborers, dug a number of large holes. Then, sombrely, they carted into them, piece by piece, some 8,500 pounds of elephant flesh. Thus to her last resting place went Babe, described in the eulogistic Washington press as not only the oldest, but the most celebrated elephant on earth...