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Cinema: New Picture: Feb. 20, 1939

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Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings.

Good shot: a propeller’s-hub-view of the runway at Albuquerque, N. M. as a racing ship comes in for a landing.

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