Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Autumn Crocus" -- Morosco, 45th Street W.--Another romance in the Tyrol relieved by the magnetic, dancing Francis Lederer who has already attracted Hollywood. Bracing as mountain...
...spent six months of 1932 in the village of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala, in the heart of a remote mountain section so completely cut off from the world that no piece of news either of the outside world or even of the Republic of Guatemala filtered in to us, save only the one appalling story of the Lindbergh tragedy. The life was a lonely and fatiguing one, and I felt as completely severed from the world I knew as though I had been translated like Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee completely out of my own century into some remote period...
...standards, the acting is overdone; anger is portrayed by swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal not to be denied...
...Actually last week Jehol fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed to be in a befuddled stupor-possibly from opium which, as Jehol's chief crop, is supposed to have...
...Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...