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...story begins with Chief "Thunder Horse, who left his native haunts at an early age to attend Haskell Institute and never returned, in a wild west show at the Chicago World's Fair, lionized by the young society matrons, and swilling down cocktails with the best of them. Hearing that his father is hill, and being temporarily fed up with his play boy existence, he jumps into his special custom model roadster, and sets out for the reservation. When he arrives there finding his father dying, unattended by the government doctor, and discovering the graft-ridden administration makes him burn...
Down in flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...
...balloon flight came as a complete national surprise. For the past six months Osoaviakhim (civilian aviation society) had been planning a stratosphere flight, but its thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim...
...Eisenstein's much touted genius seems conspicuously absent in "Thunder Over Mexico," on more than one occasion. Time is of no account to this master. Art is art. Despite all adverse criticism, I recommend this film to you on the merits of the beautiful photography without which Eisenstein would be lost. Mexico is laid before you, beautiful at times, monotonous at others, but always fascinatingly real...
...program at St. Paul's will include "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke," by Handel, the "Misereri," by Allegri, "The Peddlers," a Russian Folk Song, "Crudele Irene," an Italian song, and several other selections, including the "Gondoliers," by Gilbert and Sullivan...