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...David McLean, a tenant on the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, near Glasgow. David was in the house Saturday night and everyone else was in bed when he heard a plane overhead. He ran out back of the farm, heard a crash and saw a plane burst into flame in his field. A man was coming down in a parachute, so David got out his pitchfork...
...Axis attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough...
...sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...
...Flame of New Orleans (Universal). The gay and adventurous tart has given many a cinemaddict 90 minutes of release and fun. In The Flame of New Orleans Marlene Dietrich, fresh from the sultry antics of Seven Sinners and under the direction of famed French Director Rene Clair (Le Million), rides again...
Lean, sad Director Clair made his first English picture with Grade A Playwright Robert Sherwood. It was The Ghost Goes West, a satiric fantasy about an amorous Scottish shade, and it was a ten-strike (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936). But The Flame of New Orleans, scripted by Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that...