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...know how to manufacture the ultrasonic siren; others asked whether it could be devoted to such uses as sterilizing insect eggs in flour, the homogenization of chocolate for hand-dipped candies. An invalid wondered whether the instrument would pulverize his kidney stones without damaging him. The Long Island Duck Farmers Association thought it would be ideal for defeathering ducks. Some others who have been heard from to date...
...nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
Magnificence & Muddle. Unlike most of the few films which try with any honesty to say anything remotely worth saying, this one does not, in its last reel or so, duck out from under. In Chaplin's last minutes, instead, he opens up with his heaviest guns, and sticks by them to the bitter end. In the whole two hours of the film, there is not one instant of bidding in any shabby way for the audience's sympathy. Morally alone, this is a remarkable thing to have done...
...into an unusually good documentary, portraying with unique clarity the malignant growth of trends such as the exodus of underpaid teachers from the profession and the slackening of registration in teachers' colleges. President Conant winds up the "March of Time" with a short speech, and is followed by Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse, and Pete Smith, and at least one other comical feature. This procession of humor is overpowering: all but ardent Pluto fans are advised to synchronize their entrance to the U.T. with the beginning of "The Jolson Story" and their exit with the end of the "March...
...only rarely a banquet these days; sometimes there are only W. R. and Marion Davies. Oftener a few regulars show up, like Columnist Louella Parsons, Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...