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...story has to do with a small-town girl--Miss Dunne--who decides to have her fling in the big city. On the way there, she falls for a smooth slicker, played by Preston Foster, who promptly proceeds to forget her. From there on, the picture manages to give a dismal view of what "life in the penthouses" can sink to. Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda...
Although tradition has it that the City Slicker looks to the farmer for his pickings, he has not been completely unknown to the college man either. Relatively new to the matters of budgeting and shopping, Freshmen and their immediate elders are often less likely than more experienced men-of-the-world to spot an exorbitant price, with the result that prices frequently vary inversely as the distance to the nearest college community. It is in defense against this situation that the Student Council has organized a "Consumers' Aid Bureau," with representatives in each House and dormitory, to keep...
Boeing Aircraft Co. last week test-flew its new B-17E bomber, a better-armed, slicker version of the Flying Fortress (B-17Ds) with which the R.A.F. is now bombing Europe from heights over 30,000 feet-too high to be hit by ack-ack, or to be reached by most German pursuit planes...
...export version (British Kittihawk). Although P-40s (British Tomahawks) are still giving a stout account of themselves in battle with Messerschmitt logs over Britain's Egyptian and Far Eastern fronts, the Kittihawk is a long jump ahead. It is slicker and leaner than the Tomahawks. From its wings bristle six .50-caliber machine guns. It has better armor for pilots and, best of all, it has a lot more speed-reputedly a top of 380-390 m.p.h...
...jerks along with the customary lack of continuity of the German film. Its Nazi-drawn characters are either snow-white or jet-black. Krüger is a simple, modest, wise Boer elder statesman. Cecil Rhodes (Ferdinand Marian) is a rich, conniving Englishman who behaves like a sinister city slicker out of a Class B Western. His one thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister Chamberlain (Gustav Griindgens). Throughout...