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...male spectator with her nine-game total of 1,683 that he fell off his high perch, broke his ankle. Marge Slogar, 22-year-old Lithuanian who starred at left field on the Cleveland Bloomer Girls' softball championship team last year, swaggered around the alleys in a baseball jacket, shot a 612 singles, had a nine-game total second only to Bowler Burmeister's high mark in the first days of the tournament...
...exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack at 17 is absorbed in his first dinner jacket. Roger at 12 is a sharp little banker charging his brothers usury. Lucy at 10 yearns to be another Katharine Hepburn. Bobby at 5 toddles around gurgling "Okey-doke...
...wars in the Western Regions and, like a Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required...
...shirt, tie, and handkerchief seldom go unappreciated. On the other hand, black shirts are apt to be frowned on and no sympathy whatsoever is reserved for the unenlightened soul who appears in a gray and brown combination. "Revolting!" shudders the artistic Wellesley critic. "How can anyone stand a brown jacket with gray trousers!" "Ploppy and unimaginative." Thumbs-down is the high sign on derbies and corduroy pants...
...game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat for chilly evenings, camera & films, light, ankle-high walking boots...