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...nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance as they braided a dun cotton cover on wire, a spark tester ring a buzzer when it found flaws in insulation, pencil- size copper wire drawn through a diamond slot to hair thickness at 120 m.p.h. Most interesting sight to reporters: Far from being distracted, proud workers spruced up more than usual, speeded production, decreased waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Open House | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Gaumont British) shows what the transatlantic airliner of the apparently near future may be like. "A" deck will have spacious cabins with wardrobes big enough for blonde stowaways like Anna Lee to hide in, "hurricane" decks from which trapped villains may escape, providing scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will be ?65, the flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...first was an enormous electrical appliance. One janitor, in the know about the science of electricity, calls the work a "brain-tester," while another janitor, a sceptic, firmly believes the gadget is a do luxe Sing-Sing model of an electric chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Chair Is Among Metal Debris Left Behind by Eliot House Graduate | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

...featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after the Post ran his article "Return to Earth," a graphic piece of writing describing the plane-tester's feelings as he shot toward the ground at 400 m.p.h. Same year came the Post's most melodramatic news-coincidence, the article "Prelude to a Heterocrat-the Evolution of Huey Long." which appeared in S. E. P. day before the Louisiana Senator was assassinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Post Luck | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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