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...black eye as reported. In fact, you might say I haven't been hit yet. It would be a pretty pass if, after boxing 20 years and being champion, I should let myself get hit by an amateur. Perhaps Herb got a bit enthusiastic and let fly a few good ones. ... I jabbed a bit too strenuously with my left...
...decided value--provided always that there be no misunderstanding as to motives. So long as everyone appreciates the aims of the Liberal Club in circulating its petition that the University Theatre eliminate the Hearst Metrotone News from its program, great good can be accomplished in adding yet another bit of evidence of the opinion of intelligent men and women on the portrayal of news...
...Ourselves (by E. M. Delafield; J. H. del Bondio & Joshua Logan, producers). Joshua Logan, a corpulent young man with more brains than money, first smelled greasepaint as a comedian with the Princeton Triangle Club a few years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both...
...cover quite a healthy bit of territory and time at the University this week--from the Mississippi in the wild fifties to the Congo in the almost equally wild nineteen-thirties with a short stopover to prove that "Crime Doesn...
...start at home with W. C. Fields and his lads and lasses of the showboat in "Mississippi." We may be a bit biassed, but we must consider Bill Fields the most interesting item in any picture which is fortunate enough to be graced by his bulbous-nosed presence. When his main rival for honors is Bing Crosby, there should be little opposition to our prejudice. In "Mississippi" Fields is good--not quite as good as he has been, but still highly amusing. His lines show a little heavy-handed brushing over, but his voice and ingratiating manner are unchanged...