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Feet First (Paramount). To see Harold Lloyd hanging by his toes and fingernails, in attitudes of comic agony and terror, to the abutments of an office building above a busy city street is one of the most exciting things in the modern cinema. It is not, of course, humor that makes crowds roar and shriek as they watch him, but his antics inspire a contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm just as humor does, with the same vocal results. The skyscraper episodes in Feet First are more elaborate than in Safety Last, which he made seven years ago; there...
...with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring others from carrying loaded revolvers when pursuing their vocation of burglary." (London bobbies, pursuing their vocations, do not ordinarily carry firearms.) Gouty peers, ruffling through the London Evening Standard learned last week that: "Gunmen have struck terror into the hearts of inhabitants of the big American cities . . . their police are helpless." Finally, at the other end of the social scale, the Daily Herald, organ of reigning British Labor, explained Legs and his like wholly in terms of Prohibition. "Bad laws may breed lawlessness," said the Herald...
...drunkard and a pair of unhappy lovers are capably presented by a cast that includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Leslie Howard. When the interest weakens it is not the fault of the picturemakers but of the writing. Playwright Sutton Vane was not completely successful in creating the terror and grandeur that his theme demanded, but his effort was courageous, moving, sincere, and so is Warner's reflection of it. Best shot: Leslie Howard, as a neurotic, supersensitive inebriate, beginning to understand what sort of voyage he is making...
...John Franklin, who had been the first to trace the MacKenzie and Coppermine Rivers some 25 years before, sailed for the arctic with 129 men in the ships Erebus and Terror. The party was last seen by a whaler near the entrance to Lancaster Sound (west of Baffin Bay) on July 26, 1845. England grew alarmed at their continued disappearance, sent out rescue parties which explored thousands of arctic miles, succeeded in finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which...
...passenger to New York from the devastated area in Italy told how William Guard, longtime press agent for the Metropolitan Opera, immediately after the temblors mounted a balcony of his hotel half-dressed, played on a flute to calm the terror-stricken populace milling below...