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Princeton's play was hindered by the loss of three veteran players. Bill Barrett, Senior defenseman, was on the sick list along with Sophomore Harry Turner, left wing on the "Kid Line," and Doug Cochrane, center on the Junior line. Both Cochrane and Turner will be ready for action against Harvard, but it is doubtful if Barrett will make the trip...
Miss Claire Nevulis, who takes the part of Patsy Kelly, Shoila's "kid sister" in the Boston American's "When a Cabot Loves a Kelly" will sing and tap dance at the Freshman dance Friday evening...
...Kid Comes Back (Warner Bros.). Sock for sock, the prize ring cannot compare with its cinema counterpart for fury, excitement, sustained pace; this, in spite of the fact that few actors are natural sockers. Newest and most natural of the cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
...cast as a boxer with Barton MacLane in a routine picture, first called Trial Horse, then Don't Pull Your Punches. The Warner wisemen looked at the rushes, rubbed their hands. Shelving the picture for the time being, they rushed Morris into Francis Wallace's Kid Galahad, surrounding him with such sure-fire stars as Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart. The cinemaudience, just as the Warner wiseacres figured they would, took to Morris as the 90s did to John L. Sullivan...
...When Kid Galahad had run its course, Don't Pull Your Punches was taken off the shelf, dusted off, released under its third title, The Kid Comes Back. Less realistic than Kid Galahad, which focused on the chicanery of the fight racket, The Kid Comes Back concerns itself with an aging trial horse of the ring (Barton MacLane), whose sole remaining barrier to the championship is his own protégé (Actor Morris). In setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight...