Word: havilland
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...over the heart of Rio it circled, reaching for altitude before heading south. As it neared the shores of Botafogo Bay a twin-engined De Havilland of Argentina's Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co. appeared to the side, drew recklessly closer to the transport. Frantically the VASP pilot waggled him away, but the De Havilland never changed course. Straight for the Heinkel it headed, swerving desperately at the last minute, catching the transport square amidships with one wing...
Ribs crushed, fabric ripped and afire, the airliner split in two, spilled three of its passengers into space, rocketed the others to the bottom of the bay. Across the water the De Havilland fluttered spinning to earth, shorn of its wing. In a final dive it smashed through the roof of a house, hurled its pilot, World War I Aviator Colin Abbot, into the street below...
...group of down-at-lip jazzbabies suddenly began swinging such melodies as Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, a Chopin Nocturne, and Mendelssohn's violin Concerto in E Minor, their daring would astound and conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger), his son, and the dignified young manager of his radio factory (Jeffrey Lynn...
Jeffrey Lynn is a onetime photographer's model who still acts as though he were afraid of scaring the birdie. He behaves more timidly than usual when Cinemactress de Havilland scowls at him over the bridge of her fiddle. Piqued at her assignments on her return to Warners from her success as Melanie in Gone With the Wind, Miss de Havilland flounced out of the studio. Brought flouncing back by suspension (the big stick with which the Warner Brothers have subdued Bette Davis, Priscilla Lane, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan), spunky Miss de Havilland kept the Brothers and her fellow...
Aged 22, Joan's history has been almost as rambling as the tall tales Sister Olivia claims Joan likes to tell. She was born Joan de Havilland, in Tokyo, where father de Havilland was a patent attorney. But the de Havilland sisters went to school in California...