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...approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns the clash between the wits of a female card shark and the charm of a clumsy ophiologist. Enough said...
...informal but full length game scheduled to take place this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Varsity lacrosse team is expected to chalk up its initial win of the season. Their smaller and more inexperienced opponents will lbe the '44 stickmen...
...Circle of Chalk (produced by the Studio Theatre of the New School for Social Research) was adapted by the late German poet Klabund (Alfred Henschke) from a 13th-Century Chinese classic. (In 1925 it was a hit in Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby...
...nightly tempted to climb into his steeple and play Peeping Tom on Schoolteacher Kate Swift. They did not know the sun-baked prairie where men, women and boys work all the hot dusty day in the fields and villages, and when released are pursued by strange longings which they chalk up in public places after dark. Critics smiled at the way Anderson's characters are forever springing through cornfields or dashing down the railroad tracks in the middle of the night. But Anderson understood that Americans are a people on the march-always fleeing the city, fleeing the farm...
...Belgrade high school pupils set up a picture of Hitler and pelted it with chalk. This was part of a demonstration for the 13-year-old son of Justice Minister Konstantinovitch, one of the three Ministers who resigned from the Cabinet. But while the schoolboys were carrying young Konstantinovitch around the classroom on their shoulders, his father withdrew his resignation and joined the Government majority...