Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...columnist on the "Prince" pointed out that tradition and "Harvard conservatism" would be the principal objectors to a Bengal entry, although many years ago the race included crews "from Dartmouth...
...four full-length pictures run off for him at one sitting, knows the cast of every German movie comedy. (Another memory feat: ability to give by heart names and descriptions of all U. S., British warships.) Favorite cinema repeaters now are the U. S. films Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Viva Villa! He likes variety shows and his old preference for Wagnerian operas seems to have given way to light operas such as The Merry Widow...
...less a person than Mr. Sam Goldwyn. Mr. Goldwyn is a legendary figure who has a fine autocratic way with the English language and chronology and things like that. . . . Still, the title is not everything; and its retention does not-witness among many others the conspicuous case of Bengal Lancer-at all imply that the film will be even remotely identifiable with the book...
...same whitewashed British Lancers--this time in the persons of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling's celebrated...
...which does not promote good will toward the padding sport. Also, life was tough for the backstrokers. As they surged along on their respective backs they were forced to see not a decent ceiling, but a be-girdered roof cluttered with Tiger fans clinging to the rafters. One eager Bengal rooter even dropped his raincoat into the tank, but not during a race--it was only during the dive...