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...help restore his voice. Played in German, with a good anonymous tenor voice in the intervals when Emil Jannings makes gestures appropriate to singing, Der Grosse Tenor was exhibited in Manhattan last week at the UFA Cosmopolitan Theatre, hereafter to be used for other untranslated UFA products.* The Maltese Falcon (Warner). Author Dashiell Hammett, a onetime Pinkerton detective, improved the technique of horrifying readers by writing quick, unmannered prose and by making his characters tough as well as unscrupulous, appallingly bad as well as secretive. Some of the characters in the best-selling Maltese Falcon were...
...detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost them both. Other books: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon...
...first dive of a brand-new submarine. Last week the brand-new U. S. submarine V5, one of the two largest in the world, put out from Portsmouth Navy Yard for her first official depth trials. Aboard her were 95 officers and men. While the mine sweeper Falcon stood by, down went the V-5 off Boone Island, Maine, stayed 45 min., came up perfectly. Her instruments recorded a submersion of 332 ft., breaking the U. S. Navy's record (held by the V4) by 32 ft.* World's record for submarine dives is 400 ft., held...
...Falcon Club...
...discovered" from the air, and the news came back no faster than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott's party all died of cold and exhaustion on their way back to their base. Author Cherry-Garrard, member of Scott's main expedition,* gives...