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Last week Hero Freeburg, now 28, again made national news. Flying his nightly Chicago run, he took off from St. Paul with five passengers, headed for Minneapolis, ten miles away. Circling to land, he heard a small siren wail in the cockpit, saw a tiny light flash on the control board, knew at once what every transport pilot dreads: his retractable landing-gear was jammed. Back he headed for St. Paul, hoping the plane's vibration would shake the wheels down. They refused to budge. For nearly two hours he circled helplessly over St. Paul while Co-Pilot John...
When Jean Harlow first appeared in cinema, half undressed, as the sex-menace in Hell's Angels, it was clear that Holly wood would find a niche for her. The remarkable thing about her subsequent career is that, instead of becoming Hollywood's No. 1 siren, she has become its No. 1 comedienne. In The Girl from Missouri, written by Anita Loos & John Emerson, Lionel Barrymore wiggles his eyebrows as skillfully as ever, and Franchot Tone, as usual, gives an ingratiatingly juvenile performance. But it is the presence of Jean Harlow that supplies the picture with its vital humor. Good...
...roof of the imposing La Prensa building in Buenos Aires' wide Avenida de Mayo is a large siren. Its piercing screech, audible for miles, heralds the break of hot news. Long ago a city ordinance was passed forbidding use of the siren and the publishers rarely sound it nowadays. But when some world-shaking event takes place, La Prensa's horn shrills and a Prensa office boy trots downtown to pay the fine before its echo has died away...
Last week the fingers of La Prensa's acting publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, itched to push the siren button. There was much to celebrate. Not only was it Nueve de Julio, Argentina's Independence Day, but potent old La Prensa was formally inaugurating a new $3,000,000 printing plant, finest in South America. Its holiday edition ran to 725,000 copies- 150,000 more than its previous record...
Miss Frederick is cast as an amiable widow called Jane Seymour. Her long-lost suitor, the itinerant violinist, is labeled Peter Stuyvesant. Inept are Widow Seymour's efforts to disentangle her son from the siren snares of a "voluptuous" and "continental" woman with whom Violinist Stuyvesant was once embroiled. There is a teetotaling housekeeper who gets drunk, and a happy ending. Sample comedy, when the addle-headed housekeeper hears the name of a famed sexologist mentioned: "If that Mr. Havelock Ellis comes around here, I'll slam the door in his face...