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...unprincipled villain named Sevilla (Stiano Braggiotti) is about to lure away to Paris Betty Findon (Daphne Warren Wilson), an impressionable young woman who does not know the horrid fate which awaits her in South America. Her childhood sweetheart, Colin Derwent (Bramwell Fletcher, a capable young Englishman returned to Broadway from Hollywood), can save her only by murdering Sevilla. A barrister, young Derwent has to use all the tricks his quick mind can provide to save himself from the gallows...
...dark. Then the sun shone green. I made a normal landing with my parachute [in a forest] and walked back to the airfield where they greeted me with shouts of delight because they thought I was dead." Evceyef's record beat the previous mark, held by an Englishman, by more than a mile. The jolt suffered by Jumper Evceyef was no worse than if he had jumped from only 2,000 ft. and pulled his ripcord at 500. A man's body attains maximum velocity (120 m.p.h.) after falling 1,400 ft. Evceyef probably fell at 200 m.p.h...
Like many an Englishman since the days of Drake, Talbot Clifton (1868-1928), found England too small, too safe. Scion of an ancient line (beginning in 1060), and inheritor of great estates, he stayed caged only long enough to go through Eton and Cambridge, then set off to live dangerously in far places. Twice before he was 20 he circled the globe, but trotting in tourist tracks was not his idea. He aimed to make his body an instrument of his will. Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson...
...latest book, "The Shape of Things to Come," Mr. H. G. Wells attempts to look into the future. The following passage, taken from the chapter entitled "America in Liquidation," describes the visit of an Englishman to Harvard in the year 1958 and what he found here...
...early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that IK was jailed for "suicidal intent." Stranded in the South of France, he joined a circus, got 20 francs a bout for boxing with anyone who wanted to earn ?3 by staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England, started him in airplane building. In the War, Hubert Scott-Paine became a director of Imperial Airways, to whose board he still belongs. In 1921 he helped build up British Supermarine Motor Co. He sank his whole fortune financing...