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...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...
...moment. But before his magnanimous retreat and final conquest, he and Joan play at sweet nothing's in a boat's swimming pool, in a speakeasy's private dinning room, and in the luxurious hay of a ranch down Buenos Aires way. Stuart Erwin adds his appreciated bit to the general gayety of the sort which Mr. Gable popularized in "it Happened One Night." Of this, unfortunately, there is not enough; and presently the characters find themselves enmeshed in the age-old love vs. common decency not, with a divorce thrown in. And that is "Chained...
...Stone turns in a vivid characterization as hot-blooded "Ace." A great parodist in his time, Actor Stone shines best when, as the persuasive stumpster, he drops into Western, Southern or Irish dialect at will, depending on whom he is trying to persuade. Unconsciously, he confuses the part a bit by also imitating Will Rogers, Eddie Foy and Glenn Anders from time to time...
Brookings is all right now and has been practicing regularly. Naturally he wants his job back, but Lane is arguing the point with a fair amount of success. In the meantime Schumann, who was just a bit off his game for a while earlier in the year, seems to have solved his difficulties and is right back in form...
...belong to the salvager. Few readers of 1954 would protest the claim of Salvagers Nordhoff & Hall to the Bounty, beached by mutineers on Pitcairn's Island in 1789. Others had been there before them, but Authors Nordhoff & Hall did more than strip the wreck of what was left. Bit by bit they salvaged or reconstructed every piece of the Bounty's history. Last week they finished the long job: in Pitcairn's Island they gave the third and final chapter of this magnificent true story of the sea. (Others: Mutiny on the Bounty-TIME...