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...nominations: B. K. Bachrach, Malcolm Bancroft, S. C. Dorman, A. B. Gardiner III, Hageman, R. H. Hallowell, J. R. Leonard, J. W. Putnam, E. W. Robbins, Saltonstall, W. A. Schroeder, Jr., W. S. Sims, Jr., S. H. Stackpole, D. M. Sullivan, H. W. Taylor, White, and Hamilton Young...
...With Bancroft and Saltonstall back again at numbers 5 and 7, the Varsity crew commenced its last week of practice yesterday before winding up the college racing season here in the triangluar race on Saturday with two of the strongest crews in the East, Cornell and Syracuse...
Practice last week for the Varsity, following the shakeup after the Penn defeat, consisted mostly of long slow paddles rowed at excessively low strokes in order to establish the balance. For the most part the two crews paddled separately, and there were no time trials. On Friday, Bancroft and Saltonstall resumed their places in the stern four leaving Nickerson, Hovey, Erickson, and Armstrong in that order in the bow four. Saturday Coach Brown took the reins when Coach Whiteside went to Ithaca to look over his crew's next opponents, and yesterday work set in again in earnest. This week...
...World and the Flesh (Paramount) is a melodrama of the Russian revolution, replete with sardonic guffaws by George Bancroft and disdainful cigaret puffings by Alan Mowbray. Bancroft is a Bolshevik sea-captain named Kylenko. Mowbray is a calm patrician. His name is Dmitri and he uses his monocle in such debonair fashion that you are sure he will be executed before the picture ends. There is also a dancing girl (Miriam Hopkins) who is Dmitri's mistress. With her he runs away from the Bolsheviks. When they | reach the seaport of Theodosia, Dmitri thinks that he is safe...
...Flesh treats the Russian revolution in a new manner for the cinema, using it as the material for blood & thunder romance in the style of Rafael Sabatini. It is a well directed and adequately authentic picture, damaged mainly by prolixity of plot and by reverberations of George Bancroft's guffaw. His laughter is of a sort to suggest that he has just heard a joke which he does not understand...