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...lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material, unreal and overacted, but stamped with the European cachet of original direction and distinguished by the blonde beauty of Brigitte Helm. Best shot: the introductory sequence, repeated again at the end, in which the spectator follows the camera's eye through a villa apparently empty, through a room and a hallway, and at last to a balcony on which stands the tenant, Nina Petrova...
...scarred himself. As a ring fighter he is inexperienced. Bertys Perry, his French-American manager, was obliged to teach him not to slug, how to uppercut. Last week he was preparing to sail for the U. S. He wants a Labor Day bout with that Italian Brobdingnagian, Primo Camera (height 6 ft. 6 1/2 in.; weight...
...young Hughes became interested in aviation arid the cinema. He produced two successful silent pictures, Two Arabian Knights and The Racket. Then he decided to make a great air picture. He spent $2,000,000 on Hell's Angels. Two flyers died in action before the camera. The death scene of one remains in the picture-a big bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute but not his assistant, who was working the flame and smoke pots. Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent...
...York Daily News. When Col. Lindbergh landed at Newark Airport with Dwight Whitney Morrow, that famed father-in-law who wants to be nominated for the Senate by New Jersey's Republicans beckoned to him for political-photographic purposes a small boy from the welcoming throng. After news-camera men had photographed Famed Colonel, Genial Candidate and Delighted Child, they asked the small boy his name, reported the incident to their editors. Next day it was news indeed to small Jimmy Costello, son of Newark's city engineer, when the Daily News (echoed by the American) reported that...
...plane home on Monday without the Department of Commerce saying anything about it. . . . "* Guided by Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, provost of Johns Hopkins University and chairman of the N. A. C. A., the visitors saw latest developments in the committee's research facilities: ¶ A motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than a testpilot's pencilled log could afford. ¶ A "recording multiple manometer'' which registers the varying pressures upon 120 distinct portions of the wings during...