Word: tala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent line that they hire an inventor with a plane-destroying ray to wreck Bellamy planes. Several pilots, screaming unpleasantly, have fallen in flames before Bellamy finds out about the ray machine and bombs it to pieces. Everything is cleared up at the end except the chastity of Miss Tala Birell. Not that anything is wrong, but the tone of voice in which (though it is to save Bellamy) she agrees to go away for a weekend with one of the villains is amazingly casual, nor is this all. Hardly a reel later she accepts with even more alacrity...
...written by Playwright Julius Cravens, set to music by Henry Hadley, onetime conductor of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. It relates the efforts of the first man, Hani, after creation of the world by the Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, to subdue the other creatures of earth and find Tala, his predestined mate...
...picture might have been great had its characterization been more carefully attended to, but it has quite enough to recommend it. Tala Birell, a Viennese who played with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, is competent in her role as Florian's wife. Good shot: a night barrage upon the snow-covered mountain...