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...peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into which she has been tossed. They fail and scamper away, pursued by a posse which includes the hacendado's daughter, who gets shot dead when the posse catches up with the fugitives. The three fugitives who are captured are disposed of by the "horse torture." Servants bury them alive so that only their heads show above ground, then...
Wheeling north, the hurricane struck Washington the worst blow the capital has experienced in a generation. The barometer dropped to 28.94 in. as the storm centre passed nearby. Federal employes were let out early to scamper home to safety ahead of the storm. Six inches of rain fell in 24 hours. All street lights were out of commission. Venerable trees were blasted down around the Capitol and the White House. The Potomac River climbed over the Speedway...
Because the surface is so fast that it makes long rallies infrequent, indoor tennis is less taxing than outdoor. For this reason Jean Borotra, who can not scamper through a long match so spryly as he used to do, finds it more to his taste. To defend his indoor championship of the U. S.. which he has won every odd-numbered year since 1925, he last week made one of his business-&-tennis visits to Manhattan. In the quarter-final he came up against Berkeley Bell of Texas. Before Borotra could find out exactly how Bell contrived to pass...
...Grand Hotel, cinema producers have been fascinated by it, presumably because it contradicts the prime advantage of their medium-ubiquity. Hotel Continental varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached in a fireplace long before. He experiences some trouble getting it because there...
...with savoir-faire which equals if it does not excel that of their predecessors, Author Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence.* It is a play about two tender-hearted but irascible worldlings who, having divorced each other and remarried, meet again on their second honeymoons. Re-captivated by each other, they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place has been turned into a shambles. The truants have spent the second act in airy lovemaking, flip bickering, pillow-fights, blows...