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...going a bit too far to say that the present Boston Bruins hockey team is the best sextet that ever played together, amateur or professional. It can safely be rated over the famous Les Canadians outfits of six and seven years ago, which up until now have been pretty generally regarded as the topnotchers of the ice sport...
...principal trunk lines equipped with miniature trains large enough to carry visitors, with stations along the route. The round trip in which the entire country could be seen would take about twenty minutes, covering about one and a half to two miles of riding, which would be a bit faster than walking, according to the proposal...
...After a bit the trooper came back. "He says, 'Go in and get them. The warden will have to take his chances...
...from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters, and the fact that its central situation is frankly appropriated from the great German film Variety. A good shot: pretty, wiry Jean Arthur in a silk afternoon gown doing a stunt on the trapeze...
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...