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...does differ-as Esther Blodgett is supposed to differ from her competitors-in essentials. Trenchantly directed by William Wellman who, with Robert Carson, conceived the story from which Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell wrote the screen play, handsomely photographed in the Technicolor which its producer, David Oliver Selznick, is pioneering with increasingly fortunate results, it emerges as a brilliant, honest and unfailingly exciting picture which, in the welter of verbiage about Hollywood heretofore contributed by stage and screen, stands as the last word and the best...
DEATH IN THE DESERT-Paul I. Wellman-Macmillan ($3). An excellent account of the last Indian wars of the U. S. Southwest and Oregon, including detailed descriptions of Indian maneuvers which throw light on the generalship of savage chieftains pitted against overwhelming odds...
...side. From the press box one could see the desperation of the Harvard team, as it tried to shift with the Bates line. The tackles would pull out to meet the shift and the guards would remain stolidly in their accustomed positions. There was just the hole that Mr. Wellman & Co. were looking for. A little push on the part of Stone, the gigantic Bates tackle and the backs were through the line for plenty of ground...
...jumped overboard and was rescued by a rope. A shifting wind drove the ship off her northeast course. The equilibrator bounced from wave to wave, threatened to wreck the ship. Early Tuesday morning, after traveling 1,008 mi., the America sighted a steamer which came alongside, took Capt. Wellman, crew & kitten aboard. The America vanished into the skies...
...Walter Wellman never went aloft again. He wrote prolifically for a few years, then lapsed into complete obscurity in his Manhattan home. Few months ago cancer of the liver laid...