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...week a large portion of the U. S. press and public concentrated on doing so. Consensus of innumerable touts and tipsters who make their livelihood from just such vain speculations was that it was practically impossible for any horse at all to win the Derby. Pompoon's alleged fault was lack of stamina; his sire, Pompey, was a famed sprinter but bad at long races and 1¼miles is a long race. Brooklyn and his stablemate Billionaire were originally favored because horses from the stable of their owner, whose horses' names always begin with B, have...
...presents an enormous amount of material in a minimum of time, it tends to become something of a glorified Baedeker, cramming masses of facts down the heads of the students, but allowing no time for consideration and assimilation, and failing to develop any critical judgment in the listener. The fault lies not with Profesor Opdyke, but with the nature and amount of the material over which he has to race...
...title piece, The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Idyl of Red Gulch. Though skimpily produced, it invokes with a fidelity unusual in a double-biller the wild land and rugged times in which its scene is laid, and the nostalgic charm of the Harte stories. Its worst fault is the failure of explicitness in the last sequence, leaving the audience completely fuddled as to the reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather, and a few shots later, without proper time identification, are snowed in, with the Duchess...
...material for 1937 cinema, this story, adapted from Joseph Kessel's novel L'Equipage, appears to have only one serious fault. Emphasized rather than concealed by the careful direction of Anatole Litvak (a Russian making his Hollywood debut) and the industrious performance of Actor Muni, the fault is that it has been told so many times it has ceased being a story at all. Most banal line: Maury's to Herbillion: "It can't go on like this...
...senior year ought to insure a well-drilled undergraduate personnel for the seats on the Inter-House Council and for the intensive organization of the teams in the individual Houses. Hitherto Director Samborski has had little or no real representative contact with the undergraduates of the Houses, a crying fault which the Council idea should completely cradicate...