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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richthofen: The Red Knight of the Air (German). Few stories of the War are better fitted to make a movie than the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who shot down more than 80 Allied aviators and was found one day between the hostile lines before Amiens sitting dead in his plane which he had guided to a perfect landing.* The material is still open for treatment as nothing much is done with it in this picture. Instead of using what is really known about Richthofen: his innate love of the chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with...
Modern, they read of "the late Discoveries and Improvements of Arts and Sciences. . . . Once there was War without Powder, Shot, Cannon or Mortars . . . the mob made bonfires without Squib . . . the Lover was forced to send his Mistress a Deal Board for a Love Letter...
...Angeles takeoff was lubberly. The Graf Zeppelin scraped her tail on high tension wires close to Mines Field. Damage was slight and she proceeded slowly eastward over the Continental Divide, with a graceful swerve over Mexico. Bull-throated El Paso had opportunity to hail her. Over Texas, presumably, someone shot a bullet into her hull, causing no damage. Down into Kansas City peered the German passengers looking for cowboys...
...worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City Hall...
Atmosphere of Love is a novel, two-fold in form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary...