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Warming Up. Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having one great player, perhaps the greatest in the National League, famed in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Manager Harris of Washington sent Goslin lame-armed into left field, told Shortstop Reeves to run out and help him re-turn his catches. Perhaps Goslin's bad arm had keyed up his batting, some followers suggested; most agreed that he was hitting beyond his real abilities-no one could be as good as .414. As a superior player critics pointed to Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby, manager, second baseman of the Braves, leading the National League at bat with an average close to .400. Some sporting writers, fond of big words, spoke of him as a genius, others, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Died. Avery Hopwood, 44, prolific playwright (The Bat, The Gold Diggers'); while bathing in the Mediterranean Sea near Juan-les-Pins, France. In 1920, four plays of Hopwood authorship or collaboration were shown in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Hoover walked in and out of the living room, gnawing cigars. A bat flew in at the window. Guests and butlers chased it upstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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