Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their water gave out, two more died. They tried to make a condenser to get fresh water, but had little success. On the iyth day the chief engi- neer died. With part of his body they made a broth. "The salt in the sea water in which the flesh was boiled was absorbed by the flesh, leaving the broth free from salt and not unpleasant to taste. The flesh was like tough veal." On the 23d day the survivors drank the blood from a fresh corpse. Next day they sighted land. Out of 32 men, 16 were alive...
...Call of the Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A few years ago this kind of story was handled in pictures with a mawkish solemnity that made it unbearable. It is built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk...
...opera voice. Yet such a singer as Novarro would be far less absurd on a grand opera stage than the rotund divas and stout heroes of grand opera would be before the camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring into existence a new type of opera star-men and women who may lack the volume or tone necessary in true operatic amphitheatres, but who will have the good looks which cinema audiences, perhaps rightfully, demand...
...they will this aged treasure of the College as it lies in its gilt frame behind crimson curtains. It is the original charter of 1650 granted by the General Court of the Colony and signed by the Governor, Thomas Dudley. "The Christian Warfare against the Devil World and Flesh," sole survivor of John Harvard's library, is another prized possession of the treasure room now on exhibition. Beside this volume are Bibles which belonged to President Dunster, first head of the College, 1640-1654. One of them contains his signature...
...Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival of the Masks gurgling merrily as a monk inducts his predecessor's soul into his flesh; the symbolism of the growing "storm" sweeping the Whites before it like tumbleweeds...