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...went oil-burning furnaces. Schools shut up for a week. A ball to be given Governor Cross by the Governor's Foot Guard was called off. Danbury bakers began charging 25? a loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport, where banks and stores closed...
...Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies had to be brought away in a sleigh...
...lies in the fact that the play is intentionally unrealistic in the extreme. The scene of the action is the stage of a Chinese theatre. The Property Man (Arthur Shaw) sits off to one side drinking tea and smoking a cigarette. Every so often he gets up with a bored look, to tend to his duties. He throws down a red cushion to signify a gory head, tosses pieces of paper around to depict a snowstorm, etc. The sheer artificiality of this conventional, pseudo-Chinese method of representation is at first somewhat startling, then vaguely amusing, but finally becomes pretty...
Married. Irene Helen Robbins, 19, only daughter of U. S. Minister to Canada Warren Delano Robbins (cousin of President Roosevelt); and Alexander Cochrane Forbes, 24, Boston socialite (Groton-Harvard) ; in Ottawa. A special train bore some 200 U. S. guests, including Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Ball, many another notable. The bride's mother revealed that young Mr. Forbes had declined an invitation from President Roosevelt to hold the ceremony in the White House...
Director Eisenstein is, without doubt, one of the cleverest directors in the world today. He transposes landscape, faces, shadows, and even emotions to the screen without resorting to artificial lighting. His plot, however, is a thin one, and his nostalgic idealism may possibly bore one. He sketchily traces the life of a peon in the Diaz regime. The rich land owners are cruel, avaricious, and they love to assault innocent poor girls. The peon was miserable; therefore he revolted, and the Mexico of today arrived. Happiness, and an impeccable army, blooming youth, and more army. A glorious consummation...