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Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
Then, four days later, a thing too big to be called a "pineapple" failed to explode in the South Water Street market when wet snow snuffed out its sputtering fuse. It contained 17 sticks of dynamite, enough to wipe out an entire city block...
...placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown off the earth. I have my hand on the fuse and I shall set off the bomb the moment my request is refused...
...begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight are Iowa, the state universities, the hotels, the promptly-answered telephones, and San Francisco, "tilted city." Most pleasing are U. S. Pullman Porters, to whom, as "charming guardians...
...villain, one a hero, who want the same girl. The hero gets her. Like all German films, this one has bright sparks of photographic realism, lighting in this case the smoky darkness of a coal mine. But these sparks flicker and die along the grey and interminable fuse of the story which leads, at last, to a nonexplosive climax...