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...course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners. She goads a Job-like bus driver (Buster Keaton) into leaving his dreary route for a gently berserk tour of the moonlit seashore. She takes Hall to San Diego's Zoo where, with very sensible leisure, the camera forgets all about the plot to watch a couple of engaging bears, hindfeet clasped in paws, rock back & forth on their bottoms...
...show, but they get a lot of friendly competition from Miss Allbritton's four barbaric little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...
...course on Poet John Milton with a grade of 95 after only a week's study. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan, gave up work in a Manhattan law firm as too dull, and went to the antitrust division in 1930. When Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold was promoted to the bench last year, the antitrust division seemed to quiet down. But not really: indictments came out as fast as ever and, under Wendell Berge, increased their global scope...
...Dedham, Mass., eight relatives and an ex-employe of the late millionaire attorney, Woodbury Rand, prepared to contest his will. They were indignant at discovering that he had canceled $20,000 in bequests because of their "contemptuous attitude" towards his male tiger cat, Buster (TIME, Aug. 21). Rand left Buster $40,000, and added in his will: "Any personal property of mine which would add to his comfort, such as my radio, sweaters, three electric fans . . . shall be at his disposal...
...Buster. In Brookline, Mass., the late Lawyer Woodbury Rand left $40,000 to his pet alley-cat Buster. To his housekeeper he left Buster's comb, brush, harness and an extra $40,000 to provide for the cat's additional comfort. To nine outraged relatives he left nothing. Reason: ". . . their contemptuous attitude and cruelty...