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...hundred years ago a man lay dying in Vienna. Without a storm rolled deep thunder around the city, laid jagged streaks of light against the back-ground of the sky. And there was a great wind that soughed in the eaves and pitched the rain against dirty windows. But for all the dying man knew of the storm, he heard it not, for he was deaf. It was enough to know that the gods were angry, that Beethoven was dying. He raised himself on his elbow and, in the glare of a spray of lightning, shook his first...
...Championship was a shade more than friendly. The Santa Paula Team, which won the Pacific Coast Open in 1930, arrived first, played at Chicago and Detroit this summer. The Anglo-Argentine Hurlingham team got to Westbury, N. Y. just in time to steal some of Santa Paula's thunder. If they played brilliantly in the Open, their accomplishments might have affected the enthusiasm with which U. S. buyers would bid for the spare-limbed, light-footed, cattle-trained ponies Santa Paula had brought with them to sell. Talk about an International series in case an Argentine team...
...made no errors, against the Boston Red Sox, in Washington, 5 to o. C. St. Brideaux, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Handicap, feature at the opening of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., race meeting. Two days prior, a violent wind, rain and thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott...
Much of the excitement which Producer Frissell felt about seal-hunting survives in his picture (he was going to call it White Thunder) and saves it both from the apathy of newsreels and from the pretentiousness of most commercialized films intended to be exotic. Best shot in The Viking is an iceberg with waves breaking against it. Producer Frissell wanted also to make a shot of an iceberg turning over and had gone back to Labrador to try to get one when the Viking blew up. Before The Viking's Manhattan premiere last week, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Fox Frissell...
...holder of the world's record, cast loose from a towing airplane over Calais, tussled with headwinds for two hours, landed at Dover. His return flight to Calais was in darkness, took only 20 min. Pilot Kronfeld won the Daily Mail's prize. But much of the newspaper's thunder had been stolen day before when one Lissaut Beardmon.-. Canadian opera singer, made a one-way channel flight with the secret backing of the rival Daily Express...