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...Rumanian gambler and lady-charmer, Boyer finds himself on the wrong side of the Mexican-California border, waiting for the papers which will enable him to cross the line. Discovering that marrying an American woman will speed up his visa, he sets out to make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard, as the femme sinistre from...
...impossible to play essentially the same role in a dozen movies without some decline of conviction and zest. The supporting parts are superbly rendered, many by members of the original Broadway company. Herbert Marshall is, for once, not miscast, and performs admirably as the tragic dying husband and prey of "Regina" and her brother-vultures...
...Nazi-submarines lay in wait below Freetown to catch single ships before they could be made up into large, heavily defended convoys. For attacks on convoys the Nazis developed a shrewd tactic. A fleet of six submarines lay submerged on a convoy lane, their engines off. When the prey appeared, one of the submarines started its engines and drew away, pulling the escorting warships, following their listening devices, after it. Then the five silent submarines got into action together...
Advertisement. "Many animals, far from being concealingly colored, are very conspicuous objects in nature." Brightness is often used by animals for sexual or signaling purposes, but Cott's concern is only with the relations of prey and predator. As a rule, if an animal advertises its presence, it is a good bet that a predator wouldn't want it anyway. Birds and fishes are likely to mistake inanimate objects for the insects on which they feed, so they can easily mistake an unpalatable insect for a tasty one-unless the former distinguishes himself by loud red, orange...
Russian diplomats last week were in a scurry, trying in a few days to undo their work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends...