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...Gambler, The Nun, And The Radio," which appeared in Scribner's Magazine last spring, is an asset to this collection. It commences in a mad vein but turns rapidly into a dud when the author gets the inspiration toward the end to take several of the characters seriously. This lapse, however, is excusable. Gaetano, the gambler, is an unusual character; Sister Cecilia is the practical nun who prays for Notre Dame in the big game. There is no plot, there are few situations; its virtues may only be ascribed to Mr. Hemingway's consummate technique of making something from nothing...
...reviewer must confess an inability to discern any ameliorating quality in Miss Bennett's performance. As a Russian spy, she is transparent; as a cabaret performer she sings horridly and dances awkwardly: as a lover she is meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination. All in all, "After Tonight" is sad very...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Both teams boast a 1.000 per cent average, but the Lions have played five games as compared to Harvard's two. Princeton leads in team batting with a percentage of .333 with the Crimson in second place with .232. Individual batting honors go to Dud Parker of Yale with a three game mark of .545. Columbia with a team fielding average of .972 leads in this department while Harvard is next to last with...
...break came five minutes after the game started when John Dean, Harvard punter, whose kicks averaged more than 47 yd., fumbled on his 45-yd. line. Yale recovered. Bob Lassiter. the black-haired North Carolinian who has been Yale's outstanding halfback this year, threw a pass to Dud Parker for a 25-yd. gain. Joe Crowley smashed through Harvard's left guard for 12 yd. With a first down on Harvard's 3-yd. line, it was three plays before Walter Levering splashed through tackle for the touchdown. Sullivan scuttled around end for the extra point...
...Middletown, Md., while hoeing his garden. William H. Keller unearthed an eight-inch dud shell, probably fired in the battle of South Mountain, 1862. Twenty-five years ago William H. Keller's brother John was killed when his plough struck a similar shell...