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Stealthily the "Black Eagle" moved, was off with a roar before his intention was suspected. In the Abyssinian capital, New Flower, the sound of one airplane is enough to make everyone run out of doors, even the Emperor. Thus the wrathful monarch was watching when his Black Eagle turned into a Black Crow, lost control of his ship at an altitude of 100 ft., crashed in a mass of tangled wreckage. "Spite work!" cried Colonel Julian emerging uninjured from the mess. "That Frenchman who commanded the Abyssinian Air Force before I took command tampered with my ship. Spite work...
...Roar China! Last year the scholarly Theatre Guild went somewhat pinko when it produced Red Rust, an explanation of and a bald piece of propaganda for the social system in U. S. S. R. The Guild's pinko presentation this year is good Soviet drama, but it is not chiefly concerned with boosting Communism. It is. rather, a majestic piece of stagecraftsmanship which takes as its text the exploitation of helpless, sprawling China by a red-faced British Imperialism, aided and abetted by a sour-faced U. S. Protestantism. Roar China! was written for the famed Meierhold Theatre in Moscow...
...Roar-China! liberal-minded spectators should find little direct Soviet proselytizing to annoy them. Any spectator will probably be moved by the scenic grandeur, the bold theatrics of the production. To Director Herbert Biberman goes praise for capable direction, for assembling and managing his mob of 67 Chinese, 15 Occidentals. And Lee Simonson's setting which uses real water, real boats, almost a real battleship, is noteworthy in itself...
...Harold Lloyd hanging by his toes and fingernails, in attitudes of comic agony and terror, to the abutments of an office building above a busy city street is one of the most exciting things in the modern cinema. It is not, of course, humor that makes crowds roar and shriek as they watch him, but his antics inspire a contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm just as humor does, with the same vocal results. The skyscraper episodes in Feet First are more elaborate than in Safety Last, which he made seven years ago; there are times when even...
Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...