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...gangster pistols, the slow thunder of artillery, the drumming of horses' hoofs, the squealing of police sirens and other disturbing decibels, it was time for the cinema to investigate the uproars of the common motor car. In this picture, the automobiles are small, slim, built for racing. Less sleek and decorative than the vehicles in which the late Wallace Reid transported himself as the hero of similar sagas about motor racing, they are more exciting and dangerous. There are three races in the course of the picture, two serious accidents, innumerable skids, two gasoline tank fires. All this, photographed brilliantly...
...true that one gets a trifle weary of continued reference to "You, Oh Bobus, with your sleek, milk fed, overgrown, fatted, unbewitching, altogether plebeian body," and the like. But underneath all this balderdash and expletive lies something fine and sterling. An unflinching faith in man, a sound penetration into the perplexities of existence, a peculiar, earnest crystal ray of hope that leaps through the chinks of his Stygian gloom...
...sharp dawn early last spring, seven clumsy, curious motor cars lumbered out of Beirut, Syria, while camels yawned. Big-nosed Levantine chauffeurs behind the wheels of sleek limousines laughed derisively as they whizzed past this caravan plodding East. Soon the caravan left the road and struck out into the desert, where limousines could...
...Turin as Martini, Sola & Co. The enterprising Rossis entered the firm in the '60s; the last of the original Martinis withdrew from the company nearly 40 years ago. President of the company is white-haired Count Ernesto Rossi. His nephew, a director of the company, is sleek young Count Teofilo Rossi who was sliding down hills at Lake Placid last week as captain of the Italian Olympic bobsled team...
Small, lackadaisical Roland Young emigrated from London 20 years ago. achieved his greatest stage success in Rollo's Wild Oat, a play written by his mother-in-law, Clare Kummer. In the cinema, Young is usually a chipper menace, a sleek eccentric drunkard, or a patrician foil for some more homespun leading man. In private life, he is a collector of penguins in books, pictures and statuary, which he maintains in the penguin room of his Hollywood home. Of penguins he says: "I like them because they are different. ... I am going to spend lots of time studying penguins...