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While a lone College freshman was pursuing a band of local bicycle thieves last night, a University policeman was on his way to the scene of a mass bike theft in the Freshman Yard...
Unfortunately, the screenplay by Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, and Val Valentine is less successful than the actors. It does not matter very much that the plot, which centers loosely around the theft of a racehorse, is hopelessly confused. Many of the comic situations, however, are strained and too farcical to be genuinely funny, and the punch-lines of some of the jokes are left lying around so long that they finally drop out altogether. As a result, the film lacks much of the spontaneity of the Searle originals...
...early age he has learned to fake fits and migraine symptoms-he can even make his fingernails turn blue-in order to stay home from school. Soon he is able to forge signatures with the technical virtuosity of a three-time loser. He steals, too, but theft is an esthetic experience to him. And when it comes to sex (as it does soon, with the housemaid), he does not mind admitting that "my gifts for the pleasures of love bordered on the miraculous...
...Texas' land commissioner for 16 years, he was re-elected for the eighth time last year, but disqualified himself and astonished his friends when he refused to take the oath of office. Last week in a courtroom in Austin, Bascom Giles was convicted as an accomplice to the theft of $6,800 and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary...
Chain of Evidence. In Bountiful, Utah, Town Marshal Turner Burningham investigated a theft of $351 from a city hall safe, declared suspect everyone who had a key to the building, remembered that he had a key himself, turned the investigation over to the county sheriff...