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...dirigible, Akron, largest in the world, which they and hundreds of others were building. High on the catwalks, just under the dome of the dock (which is so enormous that rainfall sometimes occurs inside), was an excellent place to talk privately while innumerable rivets were being driven into the framework of the Akron...
...hangar thrown open for the first time in two years to the gaze of the curious, workmen plied torch and hacksaw upon the metal framework of a great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
...unbearable physical horror. Comrades of 1918 is an argument against war and it points its theme less editorially than All Quiet on the Western Front, which may be. why the German nationalists did not ban it for home consumption as they did Carl Laemmle's picture. The framework is the friendship of four German soldiers and their varying fates. Best sequences: the soldier who goes home to find that his wife has deceived him with the butcher's helper...
Girls Demand Excitement (Fox). This is a juvenile Lysistrata played against a collegiate backdrop in dialog disinfected for young ears. The original framework of Aristophanes' comedy is kept to the extent that the girl students will not "pet" unless the male students stop depriving them of their communal rights. The big scene comes in the basketball game when the girls use flirtatious methods of managing a victory. Girls Demand Excitement is made bearable at times by the good looks of a youthful cast. Best part: Virginia Cherrill (heroine of City Lights) as the girl who eliminates the leading male woman...
...proud mammoth was a sorry grotesque sight. One wing, stripped of its covering, stretched its blackened framework upward at a crazy angle. The other, now unbalanced, dipped its weight into the sea. The hull was blackened, much of the interior flooded. Said Captain Friedrich Christiansen, returning from his shore visit, "It's hard luck, but our ocean trip will not be called off. It is only delayed...