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...Indian laborer, watched a Pan American Airways Constellation taxi out for the take-off to Honduras. Just as the plane started to roll, Felix vaulted the airport fence, leaped up on the axle housing of the right main landing wheel, and flung his arms around the fat supporting strut...
...fantastic up & down career in the years since 1923, when he learned parachute jumping from Clarence Chamberlin (who later flew the Atlantic). Chamberlin found Julian a reluctant student, finally made him jump by flipping him off the wings of an Avro biplane. Julian landed safely, still clutching a strut he had ripped from the Avro. The Eagle later made many spectacular jumps over Harlem, playing a saxophone as he floated down in red tights. He also learned to fly himself...
Jane has little plot; it is a pattern of sharp repartee and character dilineation. Its performers--Edna Best, John Loder, and Howard St. John--strut across the stage, catching epithets and deftly whipping them back. And for at least one whole act--until the wind gives out--Jane sails along lightly and smoothly...
...dignitaries in the rear making a poor show beside the disciplined march of the military. Drab in topcoat and tophat they walked, wearing the abstracted look which the important learn to adopt under the pressure of staring eyes-neither marching nor sauntering, in a kind of compromise stiff-legged strut, along the weary three-mile route. At Paddington they broke ranks at last, milling and chatting discreetly as the coffin was loaded on to the funeral train amid the skirling of pipes. As the train pulled out, a blind in one coach was raised and Britain's new Queen...
...support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into listening to the poetry...