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With little or no prospect of international polo in the U. S. next summer, last week's annual meeting of the U. S. Polo Association was one of the quietest on record. After re-electing last year's officers, the Association accepted the recommendations of the Handicap Committee, which left only 15 U. S. poloists ranked in the ''internationalist" class (seven goals or more). Highest, of course, was Thomas Hitchcock Jr., who has been one of the world's three ten-goal players since 1922.* Sport-writers who thought his play had declined were more...
...Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving that its sentimentalities would be more effective if they were subdued, disguised them carefully and was terse in scenes which might have been heavily dramatic. Director Whale is sup posed to be the quietest megaphone artist in Hollywood. A onetime playwright and stage director, he seldom interrupts his actors or leaves his chair to show them what to do. His sedentary technique must have been particularly practical for Waterloo Bridge since he had an expert cast whose major deficiency is no more im portant...
...biggest banker in the U. S. he is usually the quietest. He makes few pronunciamentos. When he does speak as a banker his words carry world weight. Banker Wiggin's address to Chase stock holders last January was front-page news round the world. Said...
...hopeless young romantics. The Author. Denis George Mackail is only 39 but The Square Circle is his 14th book. Refreshingly respectable, he was educated at St. Paul's and Oxford, is married, has two daughters, lives quietly in London where he is a member of London's quietest, most respectable club, the Athenaeum. Other books: Bill the Bachelor, Greenery Street, The Young Livingstones...
...peacefully if uncomfortably. A reader intoned Jeremiah's lamentations by the light of a tiny flickering oil lamp. Jews squatted on the bare stones, straining to hear, but did not tarry long for the crowd was great and many were waiting to worship. The British constabulary called it the quietest as well as one of the biggest Tisha b'Abs on record...