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...here, it is the whole show. Her scenes on the train are at once broad, delicate and unflaggingly funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...
Five goals in nine minutes of the last period by the Yale Freshmen pulled them up from a 6-3 deflect, and they stalled for the rest of the game to overcome the fighting Yardlings. Nat Brackett and Brad Harris scored twice each for the losers, while Al Cook and Captain, Herb Allen came through once each...
...grame lineup: Varsity: Green 8, Moot p. Tine cp. Bridge 1d, Conlin 2d, Sullivan c. Fenn (Capt.) 2a. Hurley 1a, Donahue oh, Simmons ih. Freshmen: Levy g, Thomas p, Donahue cp. Brackett 1d. Close 2d, Harris c. Greeubsige 2a, Allen (Capt.) Is, Osborne oh. Cook...
...firing side of the battery, the situation is decidedly stronger since only one of last year's crop of pitchers, Charley Brackett, will be missing from the field of eligible...
Like Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...