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...three years at his airplane plant at Evere, in suburban Brussels, Belgian Manufacturer Alfred Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked...
Tickets for "Poil de Carotte," the French Talking Films Committee's March presentation, will be distributed to students today at Hunt Hall. Jules Renard's play and a musical four feeler "L'Opera de Paris" will be shown today and tomorrow at 1:45, 4:15, 6:15, and 9 o'clock...
...Harvard Business School Association is sponsoring a dance to be given Friday, December 6 in the Hotel Somerset. The affair will be formal and will take place in the Louis XIV ballroom, Business students and their friends will dance to the music of Jacques Renard and his orchestra, who is heard over the Columbia net work with George Burns and Gracle Alies. Price for members is $3.30, non-members $4.40, couple or stag...
...Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress who has no use for him because she loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac...
...official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...