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...another picture dealing with flying and the war. According to critics, the directing of this production by William Wellman, and the writing of it by J. M. Saunders, author also of "Wings," makes it one of the better war pictures. Gary Cooper plays the leading male role, that of Gale Price, and the feminine lead is taken by another new-comer to the Paramount ranks. Fay Wray...
Friday afternoon they headed into a gale. Ice began to cover their vessel; wind heaved it roughly about. Darkness was coming on; their benzine was almost gone. So they dipped in a cautious glide toward the earth's surface, not knowing whether below the fog's bed was land or water...
...International League of Aviators, is taking the 6,000-mile trip from London to Cape Town solely for amusement-"to see how far I can go." She is taking her time, flies when she feels like it, even when that means (as it did at Marseilles) landing in a gale. She is flying a small plane, a baby Moth, popular with European amateurs. Near her destination are the gold and diamond mines of her husband...
These distinctive early Americans precede the cliff-dwellers of the southwest even. Little is known of them, but the research work is increasing in magnitude. The expedition which returned with the mummies was the first of its kind in connection with the Rasket Weavers, but Dr. Gale will study these mummies next summer concentrating on thyroid glands...
...furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart...