Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story of Four Feathers, from a Kiplingesque novel by A. E. W. Mason, concerns a young British officer who leaves his regiment on the eve of active duty, gets white feathers from his three old messmates and a fourth from his disillusioned fiancée, and then goes through hell & hot water to give them back. Although this fable is energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting...
...Hollywood, fat Miss Maxwell stayed at the luxurious Beverly Hills house of thin Constance Bennett, was whisked from one bigwig's home to another in a green convertible automobile with white leather upholstery which had first been used for the California visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark. Studio clippers excised a whole scene which she wrote, climaxed by a Maxwell song entitled Whistle a Little. Old Melody, to which two trained dogs did a dance. To augment her picture work, she made a string of lecture dates. Partygiver Maxwell gave no parties in Hollywood for other...
...some theatrical success that Anastasie (the Censorship) cracked down. Last week Paris oldsters read a manchette that set them to reminiscing about the great battles between Anastasie and L'Oeuvre. With the Censorship again slashing through the French press, L'Oeuvre had printed in the broad white space to the right of its mast, in tiny letters, the word Chut! (Shush...
...sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou...
From canoes to coal barges, Parisians are sentimental about anything that floats on the oily Seine. But best-loved of all their chowchow river traffic were the slim little green-and-white bateaux mouches (fly boats), which took to the water during the 1900 exposition, have since ferried some 42,000,000 beer-bibbing, brioche-munching joyriders downriver to suburban Suresnes and back. Three francs (about 8?) bought pleasant conveyance for travelers with business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion...