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...Informals played seven games in the autumn of 1917, winning the first three, tieing the next three, and losing the last one. After opening the season with a 37-0 win over Dean Academy at Franklin, the Informals beat Bumpkin Naval Reserves 35-0 at Soldiers Field an the First Marine Heavy Artillery in the Stadium...
...three angles are obtuse: Kurt Dreyer, fiftyish, owner of a prosperous department store, is suffused with a jocular egomania; Martha, his 34-year-old wife, beautiful and sybaritic, is dimmed by compulsively romantic restlessness and anticipation; Franz, Dreyer's youthful nephew and employee, is a myopic, precariously balanced bumpkin...
...less gentle than Gomer, went to Los Angeles in 1958 not to feed his ambition but to foil his asthma. He worked as an apprentice film cutter, sang on amateur nights at a club called The Horn. TV's Andy Griffith dropped by one night, liked his country-bumpkin patter between songs and offered him a walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like one of those fellows down home...
Variety Lights shows us Fellini in 1949, an extremely talented bumpkin at last provided with his own camera and crew. We see how he clings to the virtues of provincial life on the one hand, and how he is seduced by the quick and elegant atmosphere of Rome on the other. Liliana opts for the city, as Fellini did, but not without a certain sadness. For in the closing sequence, as she boards the express for Milan and then Paris, she wistfully eyes Checco and his company on the next track, en route to the provinces and vaudeville. One suspects...
...meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold Henderson (former Nipponologist at Columbia University) has now dipped into Wheeler's collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese joker is a special breed. A blend of Socrates and Till Eulenspiegel, he serves as gadfly to his ritualistic feudal society, sits in judgment on its fools and fakers. These stories establish...