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...South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
...syivan nymphs; he can throw the property sordid glamour over Marline, the whore refusing a be in a flop-house because she intends to return to the respectability of the stage. Von Sternberg's fault is that he is old-fashioned; he believes that people still get a great thrill from seeing a mammoth locomotive roaring down the tracks; unlike any Freshman living in the Yard he does not know that in a skyscraper age the Sadie Thompsons have changed the Sadie Thompson costume for some thing resembling what even Die Dietrich herself wears in her more respectable moments...
...balloon begins to fluctuate. Lieut.-Commander Settle, a mathematically-minded engineer who inspects the construction of Navy dirigibles, described their homeward voyage on the Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have I had such a thrill as when I went aboard that ship! After being knocked about by thunderstorms in the most primitive craft that flies-then to stretch my legs under a table in the Graf's saloon and have a steward hand me a wine list about this long-the contrast left...
...much of a unit to be able to attribute its success to any individual members of the cast. Of Course, there could never be anyone but Helen Morgan to take the part of Julie. No one from the vantage point of a piano top could carry the magnetic thrill of her personality to every member of the audience, as she sings that oddly sentimental song, "Bill," for which incidentally, P. G. Wodehouse, wrote the lyric...
...John Brown's Body' [by Stephen Vincent Benét] was a step in the right direction. I've read it once and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages. Three hundred lines is about the limit. Kipling's 'Recessional' really did something to England when it was published. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around...