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...Hoevenberg run is the only place in the U. S. to practice a sport imported from Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record...
Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
...certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine at his house, his boorish conduct disgraces his family. He sneers openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings his best customer & wife to dine pretty Mrs. Kalness (Elisabeth Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites her guests...
...acquaintance of ours was walking slowly down Mass Avenue, staring into space, and carrying in his hand a new, unwrapped, strikingly striped club tie. Suddenly, at a corner, a small, ferret-like individual bumped into him, nearly bowling him over; in the confusion, the tie dropped into the gutter. The small one, before our friend could move, darted to pick it up. Its owner muttered thanks, and extended his hand for the object. But its rescuer withheld it, moving slowly back and examining it intently; finally, when our friend was beginning to lose his grip, the other handed...
...beyond his strength: for a while he joins her roistering household. But he soon has enough of it and goes back to semi-starvation and odd jobs. Annette. who has also had her troubles in Rumania, comes back to Paris and takes a job as secretary to a notorious gutter-journalist; rumor quickly calls her his mistress. Marc avoids her, falls on worse & worse days, finally collapses into dangerous illness. Assia. a Russian girl who lives in the next room, nurses him, sends for Annette, and mother and son are reconciled. When Marc is convalescent he and Assia fall...