Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Foote's tale was no fantasy. Out for quail with a friend's three bird dogs were Paul T. Chance, an Augusta lawyer, and his two sons. After a covey rise, some of the single birds settled in a small ravine beside a railroad culvert. When Brilliant Joe, an 8-year-old setter, reached the top of the railroad embankment, he saw that one of his mates, a young pointer, had got there first and was pointing. Brilliant Joe stopped squarely in the middle of the track to "back" him (honor the other dog's find...
...private investigator on a holiday with a drunken sidekick, Roscoe Karns, Overman finds himself following a woman in the holiday spirit, until they stumble across the scene of a crime. For the easy to look at lady is an ex-chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor...
...recipient of proposals of marriage from millionaires and peers;" in fact, the shopgirl's dream. You've seen it done before, but the present cast and Boleslawki's direction make it sufficiently diverting. It is not up to some of its predecessors, but compared to "Dangerous Number" it is brilliant--or will be if seeing "Dangerous Number" first doesn't make you made and spoil it for you. "The Last of Mrs. Creyney" is perhaps a bit overlengthy, too, but it keeps you laughing most...
William Welch '38, does brilliantly in his unsavory role of villain. His makeup is a triumph in depravity; his every gesture reeks of wickedness. Prof. Jones, having once played this very same role in a stock company, must be well pleased in his disciple. Another piece of really brilliant acting is turned in by Richard F. Rabenold '39 in a rather minor part, that of the grubbing pawn broker. Charles Tuttle '37 is both lovely and affecting as the long suffering heroine. But Howard Bristol '38 as her mother is a veritable revelation in matronly dignity. The actors...
...competitors stand out Princeton and Yale, both of whom have succeeded in tying up the Crimson team, chances for title wins on the basis of the season's record appear slight. Yet, so narrow were their margins, that the rejuvinated eight, led by Captain Cavin, hopes to make a brilliant comeback on the Lehigh...