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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cock-Eyed World (Fox). Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson wrote this sequel to What Price Glory. Like most sequels written to order and for the trade, it retains the flavor but not the vitality of the first piece. Still in the Marines, Sergeant Quirt and Top-Sergeant Flagg get their women mixed up again in Russia, Brooklyn, Coney Island, the tropics. Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory...
...still light. . . . The sea was absolutely calm. I was awakened by a terrific crash which threw me partly out of my bunk. . . . I ran in my nightdress out into the saloon where I found the Prince and Princess also in night clothes. . . . Water began coming in on top of me through the portholes. The Prince aided me out on deck, returning to get the Princess. . . . They had told a sailor to swim with me, as the captain said that the ship was sinking so fast it was impossible to make any use of the lifeboats...
This sunspot may have something to do with the drought which the past fortnight has afflicted U. S. farmers, restricted the water supplies of many communities (TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were...
...Sorger of Longview, equipped with spikes and a circling rope, squirreled up a 120-ft. fir tree, cut out the top, descended, all in 4 min. 5 sec. Among his prizes was a Paul Bunyan doughnut, one foot in diameter...
...something much better, but no Hollywood company has taken bet ter mountain-scenes than these. No miniature-sets and no doubles are used. You see the actors swinging over precipices thou sands of feet high, hooking spiked shoes into glassy walls. Best shot: Peter Voss getting to the top...