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Mars Attacks the World (Universal). Abbreviated version of last year's serial Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and featuring Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, re-released to take advantage of the uproar about Actor Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast last fortnight...
...first down situation was very odd. Harvard did not make the initial one of the ball game until midway in the second period, since the first period was nothing except an exchange of a dime's worth of punts. No first downs appears even edder when you realise that "Flash" Macdonahl had made...
After Cohen had intercepted a pass, the stage was set for the fourth touchdown, a 16-yard gallop by "Flash" Macdonald. In the fourth canto Macdonald scored again, this time from the 7-yard line. This fifth score was set up by Chicago having a pass hit a lineman, hence awarding the ball to Harvard. A few moments later big tackle Tom Healey intercepted a floater, then Hamity intercepted a Foley serial, but Joe Gardella, now in for Cohen, intercepted one himself and ran almost to the pay zone, where he journeyed on the ensuing play. The final touchdown...
...dingy, impertinent, little trains chug in every few minutes and, before they have even skated to a halt, begin to spew forth a few score commuters who flash past him on staccato high heels or solemn, rubber-heeled oxfords. Cogs in the Hub's vast commercial machine, muses the Vagabond, as he lolls against a post. Each one intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles...
...Austie Harding, who started around right end. All of the Crimson interference, except Bob Green and Tim Russell went to the right. To the right also went the Bengals, and they buried Harding under three tall tacklers. But Harding had slipped the pigskin to the circling Macdonald, and "Flash 55" was off. Green and Russell contributed perfect blocks, while the whole rest of the team swept toward the left, crossblocking the Bengals. At midfield Macdonald reversed his field and streaked for the money zone, 73 yards...