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Firebird (by Lajos Zelahy; Gilbert Miller, producer). Zoltan Balkanyi (Ian Keith) was a matinee idol in Buda-Pesth. He also was a devil with the ladies, some of whom did not care for his lustful attentions. One of these was Karola Lovasdy (Judith Anderson), wife of a onetime diplomat (Henry Stephenson) who owned the apartment in which the unwholesome Balkanyi lived. When the actor is discovered dead there is evidence that dark-eyed Actress Anderson is the guilty party. Her apoplectic husband comes to think so, too. Finally he and the rest of the cast are sure of it when...
Last week aging, taciturn Orville Wright, 61, stood beneath a gale-pelted canvas shelter at the same sand dune. Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, to witness the unveiling of a monument to that historic flight. (His brother Wilbur died 20 years ago.) The actual scene of the flight lay a quarter-mile to the north. Sea winds had budged Kill Devil Hill some 50 ft. a year before Army engineers anchored it with hardy grasses and shrubs...
...when their time comes, be required to read the books, following the thought despite the defacement. This done, each sinner will be forced to eat the books, and the lead from the pencil marks will be rendered out of them by eternal fire, such being the efficiency of the Devil, who wastes no lead...
...were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced Navy officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which all but cost him his sight. With him was Roy Knabenshue who barnstormed for years with Capt. Wild in their dangerous little "rubber cows" (small dirigibles...
...country for "that divine law," national Prohibition. In May, 1910, she was kicked out of a saloon in Waterville, Tenn., had her false teeth knocked out and damaged. Before fainting on the lecture platform that night, game little Carry Nation lisped that she "had set her teeth in the Devil this afternoon." Next year she died, aged...