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Although we had never imagined Clark Gable as Christian, he made his performance realistic by reacting as a normal individual when he was torn by his hate for the captain and his sense of duty...
Died. Sidney Smith, 58, comic strip artist ("The Gumps'') ; instantly, when his automobile collided with another and crashed against a telegraph pole (his head was almost torn off) ; near Harvard, Ill. He had just signed a five-year renewal contract for "The Gumps" at $150,000 a year...
Hayden Channing is another HYP veteran, placing fourth last year. Prior to this fall, Hayden almost always developed a stitch during the final mile of a race due to a torn muscle suffered while running during his public school days in England. So far this season, however, he has been able to complete the course without undue abdominal discomfort. Also subject to stitches is Axel Northrop, captain of last year's Freshmen. Developing one early in the Holy Cross meet, it forced him far down in the finishing order. Should he out-grow this affliction, as apparently did Hayden, however...
...from Cheyenne, a searching pilot spied the gleaming fuselage of the plane lying like a disemboweled fish at the end of a quarter-mile trail of destruction. Scattered along this were shreds of cloth, lipsticks and compacts, magazines, pieces of sheet music, and, almost touching an oil-drenched cylinder torn from a motor, a copy of Look Homeward Angel which friends of the stewardess later said was hers. The cabin had not caught fire but was broken in two like an exploded firecracker. One wing was wrapped around the cabin; a landing wheel had crunched through. Some of the twelve...
...troupe of midgets take the stage. Within the play itself, the Lunts have felt free to bring in any amount of extraneous horseplay that might add freshness and fun to their antic. Thus, as plain Kate, bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst, Miss Fontanne stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays...