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...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...
...Collinsville to see a rustic figure in mismatched clothes and red suspenders were disappointed. But there was no disappointment in the fiery fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship and poverty." Then he quickly swung into his favorite economic theme-the wealth of the rich, the poverty of the poor. "The great middle class," he shouted, "is threatened with bankruptcy and extermination." He gave his audience the same platform...
...Salt Lake City, while a blinding snowstorm raged, the airport radioman heard the voice of Pilot Norman W. Potter, flying up from Oakland with the night transcontinental mail: "Eight miles north of Grantsville. Heavy snow. All O. K." He heard no more; Pilot Potter did not bring the mail in. Next day a searching party found him dead in the wreckage of his plane, under eight inches of snow, only ten miles from the Salt Lake airport. His mail cargo, scattered about, was recovered. Pilot Potter's death was the second in United Air Lines' five years operation...
...time farces. Director Clair, perceiving opportunities for satire, has made the opera singer a stout, pretentious clown, the thief & friends ridiculous prototypes of U. S. gangsters, the hero's creditors a crew of rascally lickspittles. He pokes fun at the opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased to discover that Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments...