Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortcomings of the U. S. as an airwise nation which General Mitchell considers important include lack of through transcontinental air lines, lack of transoceanic lines, the vulnerability of warships to planes ("battleships have become so top-heavy and useless that if they get a good crack below the waterline, they just turn over and sink of their own accord"), the excellent air targets which the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga provide, the impossibility of protecting cities from air raids, the poverty of the Army and Navy in fighting planes...
...expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture of a peasant marriage includes most of the virtues and few of the defects of Russian filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry her so as to bring her to his house. While his son is in the army he rapes his daughter-in-law and has a child by her, which precipitates tragedy when the soldier-son comes home. Inside this gloomy framework dances the life of the lovely...
...Movietone Follies of 1929 embeds a musical show in the conventional cinema story about an understudy who got her chance. Dancing intervals, punctuating the Negro comedy of Stepin Fetchit, get across by such not entirely original, but fairly effective devices as photographing all the girls' feet at once or all their eyes. One good color sequence partly makes up for mediocre tunes. Best shot: backstage hands on opening night...
...tints this film most of the time well suits a musical show. Betty Compson is pretty and so are most of the other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...
...settlement (TIME, May 27), the Tacna-Arica coastal region was divided between Chile and Peru; Bolivia's protestations were ignored. But the U. S. State Department let it be known that Bolivia was quite at liberty to make any arrangements with Chile that she could. Before Bolivia could get up momentum for a renewed appeal, Chile last week issued an indirect but nonetheless effective quasher. Her Minister to Uruguay abruptly announced: "My country brings to a close all of her frontier problems. None remains now to be contemplated...