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if!? Left : Van Johnson, as John Alden, the ship’s carpenter, has the crew of the “ May- flower ” headed, by Lloyd Bridges as Coppin, save the cracked beam from collapse—a <:cene from " Plymouth Adventure.” Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable in " San Francisco,” a film which showed the great earthquake. Paul Muni, Luise Rainer and Charley Grapewin thrashing grain in the Chinese film, “ The Good Earth.” Water—rivers in flood, frozen, treacherous—has provided some of the biggest thrills in pictures— especially the sea, against which man has fought from time immemorial. The Red Sea’s opening at Moses’ command in The Ten Commandments, was photographed thirty years ago, and has been followed by other thrills, among them the tremendous, natural flood scenes in The Green Pastures, and the enthrallingly gripping scenes of Plymouth Adventure, which re- counted, as true to life as possible, the nerve-racking, perilous voyage of the “ Mayflower ” in 1620. The reaction of the passengers and crew was brought to light in dramatic sequences in the film, such as the one in which the carpenter, played by Van Johnson, saved it from foundering by shoring up a cracked cross-beam with an ancient printing press. There have been many other thrills, too—who can forget the disastrous earthquake episode in San Francisco ? San Francisco was destroyed by fire and earthquake in 1906 and the film gave us vivid pictures of the scenes. In The Good Earth, the memorable film of peasant life in China, who will ever forget the plague of locusts which was its climax ? The Israelites as slaves in Egypt—a scene from “The Ten Command- ments.” Top of page: Heaven, with Rex Ingram as the Lord facing his angels in " The Green Pastures,” the unusual Negro film made some years ago.