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...power that thermals (masses of hot air forming at the earth's surface and rising, to give lift) and air currents provide. With this power, sailplanes have soared to an altitude of almost 23,000 feet, and a Russian woman, who holds the international distance record, sailed non-stop for 465 miles...
...aunt and his mother. What rob these scenes of any real force are nor Ibsen's crudities, but the mistakes made by Eva LeGallienne in her several capacities of director, producer, translator and actress. First of all, she has chosen to reduce the play to a five-scene, non-stop performance, a choice which only serves to increase the tedium of the whole proceeding. By casting Mary Alice Moore, who was obviously made for something frothy by Philip Barry, in this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus...
...Powered with four 3,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines, it cruises at 340 m.p.h. for 3,500 non-stop miles...
...characters, ranging from a sailor who takes his accordion to bed with him ("It takes up less room than a woman and sounds a hell of a lot better") to suave -Lord Kelvinston, who subsidizes the ballet and reeks of "inbred irony." You and I has amusing moments and non-stop action, but somehow it seems just to have been poured...
June 28, 1518 was the name day of Pedro de Vargas in Jaén in Old Spain. It is also the opening date of one of the most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder...