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...rivals for Cheers Reynolds, small town sweet-shop operator (Eleanore Whitney). O'Riley goes to little Green Ridge College where he warms the bench. Merrill becomes a star at big Sierra. Agile ballyhooing of the players' amatory conflicts, complicated by Merrill's infatuation for a cinemactress (Priscilla Lawson), builds Green Ridge into a Rose Bowl attraction. Here Coach Moore (William Frawley) wins the game by putting O'Riley in, disguised in a nose cast, after he has dismissed him from the team for improper behavior. Best part: Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, 1932 Olympic swimmer, more recently famed...
Under Two Flags (Twentieth Century-Fox). This great-aunt of all Foreign Legion stories was written in 1867 by Louise de la Ramee (Ouida), performed on the U. S. stage by Blanche Bates, in the silent cinema by Theda Bara (1916) and Priscilla Dean (1922). The current version, costly, handsome and overlong, offers a concession to modernity: Gregory Ratoff, as a Legionnaire, says with a thick Yiddish accent: "We're all supposed to be trying to forget something, but there's so much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed...
...recital, the first of a winter series, Miss Priscilla Thierry will accompany Mr. Woodworth on the violin...
...month Generalissimo Chiang an nounced that he had "broken the backbone of Communism in China" by chasing the Communists out of Kiangsi Province. Nanking authorities added that nearby districts were "safe." Nonetheless, a band of Communists bobbed up at Tsingteh and kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen Priscilla. One morning last week the Communists paraded the two missionaries through the muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive in a deserted...
...Radcliffe Committee will consist of Harriet Adams, Joan Fiss, Jean McMoren Marjorie Simpson, Priscilla Skinner...