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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This episode brought Miss Negri much valuable publicity, several jobs, before she slipped into comparative obscurity again. Last week resting on the French Riviera after finishing a German version of Madame Bovary, Pola Negri had cause to be grateful to the name of Hitler once more. Acting on a tip from Paris, the wildly sensational London Sunday Referee printed a startling story: recently Actress Negri had admitted to her mother that she was having an affair with someone in Germany, and added, "I can say no more than that he is a very very famous person." In Berlin...
...formal report of what happened next was drawn up and informal stories varied. According to one version, when the driver reached the nearest point on his route to the scientists' destination and asked them to get out, they refused. One said: "We will have a sitdown strike." When the driver threatened to remove them and their baggage from his vehicle by force, a strike committee pointed out that the energy output involved in any such procedure would be greater than that required to take them to the university. The driver yielded to this logic, drove his passengers to Swain...
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her race home against the Jenny Cushman. Either alone would have made a good picture. Together, as luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains...
Last year Douglas launched the DC-3, a luxury version of the DC-2. Now abuilding is Lockheed's parallel to the DC-3- the S-14, an eleven-passenger luxury version of the Electra. Last week Lockheed announced that the first eight S-14s had been ordered by Northwest Airlines, which bought the first Electra. In June the bigger, roomier S-14s will replace Northwest's present Electras on its 2,000-mi. run from Chicago to Seattle, give it the fastest fleet in the world-cruising at 224 m.p.h., with top speed...
Badminton, modern version of the ancient game of battledore & shuttlecock, takes its name from the county seat of the Duke of Beaufort. Legend says it started there in 1873 when the guests at a dinner party stuck goose quills in champagne corks, began batting them across the table...