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Thanks to Radioman Dailey, warships were swarming to the rescue before the Macon's stern touched water. Out of the dirigible's lockers had been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized...
Rumba (Paramount). Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket. She goes to his dressing room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner...
...Photographer Cecil Beaton in a cocked hat at the feet of a plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores...
Limehouse Blues (Paramount). Putting Anna May Wong and George Raft in a picture with a Limehouse background was a good idea to start with but it is the only good idea in Limehouse Blues. Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite...
With catlike tread, and with deft fingers, workmen have been engaged for the past several days in clambering about a raft moored in the middle of the Charles, and in stufllng oakum into the Weeks Bridge. The bridge has apparently developed some sort of weakness of the joints, and quantities of oakum are needed to prevent its collapse under the dainty feet of the Cadets. Due to the presence of heating pipes inside, the laborers game of ring around a rosy consists of opening the bridge up completely every morning, working for a short time on the interior, and then...