Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play may have been in the original German, it has become in English a curious mixture of heavy-handed love-scenes and theatrical seduction--scenes alternating with bits as deft and sophisticated as you could wish. A string of witty lines follows theatrics in the style of the old snowstorm melodrama...
...swashbuckling star pilot. While Talbot dallies with a pilot's widow (Lillian Bond), Miller has to leave his girl (Gloria Stuart) to fly the mail. Naturally, even an honest aviation picture must contain a crash and rescue; this time they happen when Miller cracks up in a snowstorm and Talbot flies a stolen plane into the mountains to bring him back. Good shot: Desert Airport on Christmas night, with a pattern of planes rising in the lighted snowy...
...radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed. Pilot Solberg just missed crashing into a hill, plunked the ship down into Placentia...
...Geology & Paleontology of Halle University, Saxony, tells of having seen a visible phenomenon off the coast of Greece that might well have seemed a sea-rising Aphrodite to an unscientific eye. Writing lately in the scientific magazine Forschungen und Fortschritte, he described a day in Grecian waters when a snowstorm was gathering and the waves were high. As cold air struck the warm water, columns of white vapor rose from the sea. They were held suspended for a moment, then whirled, dissolving away. Professor Walther thought they resembled "feminine figures dancing in filmy draperies...
...house where a lady is having a baby. Rebecca does not get home until morning. Her aunts are furious. One of them has caught pneumonia going to the prayer meeting. When she is better, Dr. Ladd and Rebecca will be married. Typical shot: Rebecca, after riding through a snowstorm in an open sleigh which finally tips over, arriving at her aunts' house with two flakes of snow on her dress...