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...Shortest nine-inning game on record: the 51-minute game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies, Sept. 28, 1919, which the Giants won, 6 to 1. Batteries: New York, Jess Barnes and Earl Smith. Philadelphia, Lee Meadows and John B. Adams...
...committee which will schedule and administrate the forums consists of Earl M. Kulp '52, William H. Gribble '51 and Kingsley H. Murphy '52 of the H.Y.R.C. and Richard K. Berg '51, Donald W. Dowd '51, and John White '52 of the Liberal Union...
Matthews, now over 80 years old, has the part of a bumbling earl more interested in shooting marauding rabbits than in the "important" events and intrigue going on around him. The only changes in his part from play to movie are the deletion or dilution of certain picturesque passages...
...Beecham, the Earl's butler and a member of parliament, is played superbly by Cecil Parker. He is the man who provides the situation humor of the picture; the Earl's remarks are little gems that are usually quite irrelevant to the main flow of action. The other players are all well-cast and move gracefully out of the way when Mr. Matthews' commentaries reach a crescendo of bumbling...
There is a great amount of humor squeezed out of the essentially trite plot of "The Amazing Mr. Beecham." The lines are witty throughout, no words are wasted, and the story is kept from lagging. Though the irrelevant comments of the Earl could be considered the theme or the raison d'etre of the movie, enough social commentary is sprinkled into the dialogue to keep audience interest alive on more than one level...