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That tennis, crew and football in that order are still the most popular fall sports among the Freshman class, is indicated by the figures released yesterday by the Department of Physical Education at Wadsworth House. As the total number of men registered in all is only 906 in comparison with last year's figure of 937, the number of men signed up for each individual sport is proportionally lower, except for football, swimming, handball, baseball and managers. The figures show that 210 chose tennis, 177 chose crew, and 165 football. Swimming is next with 77 men, having jumped into fourth...
...dialogue is even as skillful as the direction. Pungent with quips and wise-cracks, it snaps from player to player, yet is ever pointed and revealing. This reviewer, not having read the story from which the picture is taken, cannot form a comparison between them, but if Vina Delmar's novel is equal to the film, the dialogue is mighty good entertainment...
...juxtaposition on the same bill of "Rebound" and "The Magnificent Lie" invites comparison of the work of the respective actresses, one of whom is gaining popularity with each successive production, while the other has patently passed her zenith and is definitely on the wane...
...have learned that it is futile to protest against the Hemingway comparison; most every young author who pokes his head above the ground nowadays is beset by Hemingwayniac; armed with bayonets, banderillas and empty Vermouth bottles...
...tycoon as Carl Laemmle (TIME, May 4), angels weep, men laugh knowingly. When famed and popular Author André Maurois writes a no less flattering account of his still-extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by André Maurois is unfortunate...