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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...younger daughter of an improvident Major (Walter Connolly), who has succeeded in arranging a betrothal between his eldest daughter Eileen (Margaret Lindsay) and handsome Larry Blake (Warner Baxter), who has a Rolls Royce and a yacht. When she learns that Eileen loves not Larry Blake, but a poor boy of the village named Jack Breen, Paddy does her loveable best to break the engagement. She snubs Blake, then flirts with him, finally tells him in plain terms why her sister is marrying him. All this has a good effect. After her father has been kicked to death...
Outmoded in other respects, Director DeMille still has two assets which his confreres may well envy-an unabashed sincerity, an utterly individual style. Even in so poor a picture as This Day and Age, DeMille's crowd scenes, his overemphatic tricks of narration, his kindergarten dialog, produce a queer effect of compelling attention without being in the least convincing. After seeing the picture audiences should be better able to credit the most recent additions to the Hollywood saga about DeMille. Back from a preview of The Sign of the Cross, in which the thing the crowd liked best...
Newspaper correspondents have steadily stressed the fact that Russians are harvesting bumper wheat crops this year (TIME, July 3). But they believe that there is still famine, left over from last year's poor crop. Nervous, the Soviet Government last week bottled up all foreign correspondents in Moscow, refused to permit them to travel in the provinces unless it could be certain what they are looking...
...fault of angels - ambition; she could not settle down anywhere with out trying to set the place spiritually to rights. In Dorchester she soon made a series of grand sensations. She made and wrecked parties by her presence, got her self arrested in order to reinstate a poor boy in his job, championed underdogs at every opportunity. But when she tackled Mr. Ganson, Greeks...
That incident epitomized the impression of observers watching a nation of peasants struggle with an ambitious commercial & military aviation program. The Russians were better than fair flyers, but they were poor mechanics and executives. They were always forgetting something. But no pilot or other participant forgot anything at the U. S. S. R.'s first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly...