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...trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone. In fact, the replacement of Cary Grant by a fox terrier named Atlas is even a slight detriment. Billie Burke, as Mrs. Topper, runs away with all the good lines and leaves the rest to the cast to struggle with a script which is nowhere near as good as that of the first Topper picture. The superb comedy of Roland Young...
...Jayvees, sparked by Vic Marans, managed to stave off the Terrier cubs for better than 30 minutes, but then the visitors, led by their captain. Dud Purbeck, spurted and put the game on ice. These same Boston University Freshmen hold the only victory scored over Skip Stahley's Yardling cagers thus far this year...
Among the English novelists who bite as well as bark, Storm Jameson is a lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone-The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends...
Doug MacLeod did not win a starting berth until the Terrier tilt, but he has proved himself to be a steady ball player. Fred Heckel is much more at home at forward than at guard, and he showed what he really could do in the Boston University game by amassing 17 points. Homer Peabody has improved steadily, and Bill Humes is ready to work in the relief role...
Once again the undefeated Yardling cagers will provide the curtain raiser at 7:15 o'clock when they tackle the Terrier yearlings. This game brings together two equally matched and high scoring quintets, but the Stahleymen are determined to keep their unblemished record intact...