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Over the icy concrete runways of Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field one day last week streaked a shiny new sedan with a professional "hell driver" at the wheel. While police and safety officials held their breath the car hurtled over six-inch railroad spikes at 60 m.p.h., had its rear tires slashed by automatic knives. What made the demonstration remarkable was that after the blowouts the car did not swerve dangerously but was brought safely to a stop under full control...
...patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might be construed as an original narrative. Best shot: an aviator purporting to be James Cagney, but actually one of the anonymous stunt flyers who helped make Devil Dogs, impudently bouncing his plane over the ambulance...
...Devil Dogs of the Air," a story of the United States Marines, you'll find to be done much in the style of such cinemas as "Here Comes the Navy," "Hell-Divers," and those others which have to do with goings-on in Uncle Sam's fighting forces and whose equipment and scenery are the real McCoy. Many are the aesthetically beautiful and photographically magnificent shots to be found in the film, while certain other scenes and bits of action hark back to the old "thrillers" in their more daringly tense moments, but which, on the other hand, are strictly...
Just in case hell should break loose, former President Gaston Doumergue, today the somewhat self-conscious mascot of French law & order, left the country estate to which he has twice "retired forever," bustled into Paris...
...appeared last week in Chapel Hill, N. C. went through a religious routine which closely resembled a minstrel show. On the platform at the University of North Carolina's Memorial Hall, the Protestant asked the Catholic: "Do Catholics believe that all Protestants and Jews are going to Hell...