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...zoological gardens (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930), then despatched Author Buck to Sumatra with a director and two cameramen to take pictures of the procedure. Director Clyde E. Elliott knew that people like wild animal cinemas for the same reason that they like the tigers in the circus. Remembering UFA's brilliant short of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, he saw to it that there were plenty of fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive...
Most spectacular fight in this film is an enlargement of UFA's: a struggle between a python and a tiger. The tiger gets the python by the throat. The python coils around the tiger's middle. The tiger shakes himself loose and goes to get a drink of water. Finally Frank Buck captures both, the python by hauling him into a cage, the tiger by building a box-trap out of logs. Alert cinemaddicts will guess that actually the tiger and the python were both captured before their fight, recaptured later for the camera...
Monte Carlo Madness (UFA). Bombarded by Hollywood cinemas with for- eign dialog, European producers have tried to retaliate by making pictures in English. Trying it herein, UFA wisely chose a comedy of the type which German Director Ernst Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer...
...cinema career. When her father, a Russian ballet master, died, Anna, then 12, helped to support the family in Kiev. At 15 she got into the Soviet Film Academy. Three years later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn she took a Berlin screen test-a bit from Gloria Swanson's role in Indiscretion, which she recited in English. Anna Sten, 22, came...
East of Moscow the fog and rain grew worse. It was much as it had been on the first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...