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...heartily recommend the various "short subjects", and the accompanying comedy. "Don't Bet on Women", featuring Jeannette MacDonald. And the news-reel...
...small as it was last week. Some of the best "leppers" in the U. S. were entered, but many were scratched from the post list. Only seven were at the barrier when the starter sent them off into the mist and drizzle. Only one seemed to count. That was Reel Foot. He was running what trainers call a Billy Barton race, a smothering race, pulling away in great bounds at the start with a speed clearly geared to last to the finish. At the first mile he was four lengths in front. Brose Hover, even money favorite and last year...
...takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking off Sea Soldier's wraps and the lean horse stretched out on the flat three jumps from home and passed Reel Foot. The two horses converged at the water, and then the thing that happens so often when a tired horse is taking a bad jump happened to Sea Soldier and Reel Foot at the same time: the riders checked a little, the horses made rough, desperate lunges to carry...
...films, each fifteen minutes in length, comprise pictures of takeoffs and landings of various aircraft from the decks of carrier ships. Simple takeoffs from the Saratoga and the Lexington will be shown in the first reel; the second will picture catapults from a number of vessels; the third and most interesting, from a spectators' point of view, is a movie of a series of airplane crashes taken on Langley Field, where photographic records of all landings are made...
...drifted to Hollywood where he produced pictures combining people and cartoons. When the sound device was invented he originated his famed rodent, devising a method to make the Mickey Mouse musical scores synchronize perfectly with the action. It takes from 6,000 to 7,000 drawings to make one reel (650-750 ft.) of Mickey Mouse film. Walter Disney pro duces 26 films a year, 13 Mickey Mouse cartoons, 13 Silly Symphonies. Like Charlie Chaplin, Mickey Mouse is understood all over the world because he does not talk. The Germans call him Michael Maus, the French Michel Souris, the Spaniards...