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...than is a dinner platter. Taking its name from Sir Alfred Harmsworth, later Baron Northcliffe, who donated it as an international speedboat trophy early in the century, the Harmsworth is a cheap bronze plaque, perhaps 15 by 18 inches, and mounted on a bar wood base. It represents a bit of rough water and an early speedboat, more resembling a fishing dory than anything else, going around a course buoy. Sports writers out of Detroit may be excused for misnaming the trophy because of the fact that for 13 years the bronze has rarely left the precincts of the Detroit...
...play, I cannot compare; that is fortunate, for one frequently finds fault with movies because they are not faithful reproductions. Much of the picture is painfully realistic: in places it seems to lack a swiftness of touch usually attained on the stage, and the debonair Montgomery is a bit out of his element as a heavy. However, I can recommend "Another Language" without reservations. Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery perform ably and are assisted by an excellent group of actors in minor roles...
...Masquerader," University--A pleasant romance starring Ronald Colman and Elissa Landi. The other feature, "The Narrow Corner," contains an excellent bit of character portray al by Dudley Digges. Last...
California's lanky Senator William Gibbs McAdoo & wife sailed for Europe. Asked whether there was any official significance in his proposed visit to Russia, Senator McAdoo replied: "Not a damn bit ... I am going as a U. S. Senator looking for information. I can never learn enough about things...
...Difference, not indifference" shouts the Critic. True. It was within the memory of man, (i.e. last spring) when the CRIMSON rec'd this bit:--"The.. manuscripts.. have been.. petty, (and) the editors declared that the next issue.. would not appear until fall." The stick continues, "Some of the most intelligent men in the University (Critic editors) have written on such subjects as the conversion of the chapel into a hockey rink, a University institute for the dissemination of birth control devices...