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...lettered farmers' calendar escape the curious uncertainty which characterizes most of Hollywood's conscientious efforts to investigate the soil: gluttonous George Shaw asking his tired wife for another piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno...
...were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies had to be brought away in a sleigh...
...wish, has been cramming spasmodically in Mellon National since 1931. He last made news when he and Lucius Beebe, famed japestering newsman, won a prize magnum of champagne offered by Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino for the first guests of the season to arrive by horse & sleigh. Dick Mellon, however, took to power from the start. He entered Mellon National immediately after he graduated from Princeton in 1922, was made an assistant cashier two years later, vice president five years later. Able, affable, handsome, his favorite sport is foxhunting. In 1932 he entered two horses in the Grand...
...wife and I join in a request that the gentleman known to us only as "The Voice of Roosevelt" be used only in that capacity. It is most incongruous, at least in our humble opinion, to hear the President in so lowly (though not mean) an occupation as sleigh driver to the late Ion Duca, martyred Premier of Rumania...
...British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...