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Yesterday Carr got Dawson, Clos, and Morrill over in a corner and Vincent, Stork, and Manheimer over in another to explain a triangle passing formation. Apparently Carr would like more cooperation on the attack and less "diddling" with the ball...
...profile member of that sizable group of English scientists who occasionally venture out of the laboratory to explain the latest vagaries of science to fellow Anglo-Saxons, Sir James Jeans happens also to be one of the most lucid and forthright. Although in itself a completely new work, "The New Background of Science" really amplifies and brings up to date the material presented in his previous books, such as "The Mysterious Universe" and "The Universe Around Us". Embracing wider ranges of speculation, Sir James manages to render them as comprehensible to the layman as is possible without falsifying his account...
...Turn Back the Clock," the other movie, shows Lee Tracy and very little else. The plot I shan't attempt to explain; it involves something about a dream, which takes the place of the real life of the characters, and something about a man who goes back and lives his life over, thereby being able to predict stock crashes and do other uncommon things. It is lively enough to watch, at least if you like the great Tracy; and the antics of snake-hips Karen Morley should entertain those renegades who won't listen to Doctor Worcester...
...most inexcusable of offenders in a democracy, the man of mystery, the friend of none and the suspect of all. It is of small moment which game the Secretary has been playing; all the talent is against him, and will be against him through the battle, and he cannot explain himself to the public without losing the prospect of his mission. Perhaps the easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced the great Secretary into dreams of electoral mastery; but the rough and tumble of a New York campaign should leave him content with new stamp...
...international investigator into the secret underworld of Trinidad. Tagging along through mangrove swamp and sudden death, he learns the jest of murder and the intrigue of politics. DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE-Barnaby Ross-Viking ($2). All the Shakespearian lore of Drury Lane is necessary to explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE...