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...lines. Difficult to analyze and impossible to imitate, the hallmark of Director Capra's style is his way of turning what for an other director would be a commonplace "gag"' into a vital and important incident. In Broadway Bill, he makes a shot of the Higgins family lifting their soup spoons with terrifying regularity show exactly why Dan Brooks abhors their company. He makes a brilliant thumbnail caricature of Dan's amazing friend. Colonel Pettigrew, out of a sequence in which the two meet for lunch after a long separation, each hoping to borrow money from the other and neither...
...board ship in "The Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert, an inebriate in love with...
...Convened for the winter session amid a London pea-soup fog so dense and choking that for the first time in history the Sovereign left Buckingham Palace to open Parliament not in the gorgeous, drafty old State Coach but in his sleek, fog-tight Daimler. Even the Crown, which usually arrives in its own State Coach, was limousined...
...bones; 200 lb. fat hens; 900 lb. canned tomatoes; 240 lb. canned carrots; 180 lb. canned corn; 200 lb. cabbage; 60 lb. salt; 4 lb. pepper; "my own seasoning." Cook 18 to 20 hr. in iron kettle out of doors over a wood fire. "It is thicker than soup and has a flavor from the open air you can't describe...
Today the band has set itself the goal of breaking all records for number of letters formed at one game. A kind of alpha-soup will flow over the field from the end of the second period until the abashed Eli bandsmen step forth to show their wares, and such of Harvard's ten thousand as can see the field will feel a glow of pride as the intricate designs snap open and shut...