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...children of the rainbow are 20-year-old Ches Macnamara, a saddler's son, and his friend Finn Dillon, whose studded belt marks him as "Prince of Cloone," the tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest...
...conclude it on Jan. 6 with an old Italian custom (giving gifts to children for the Festival of the Three Kings) and an old French custom (cutting up a cake containing a figurine of the Christ Child). Between times, they observe an old Franco-Spanish custom (displaying crèches showing Christ in the manger), an old European custom (hanging stockings), an old English custom (sending cards), an old German custom (decrating Christmas trees), and an old U.S. custom (receiving presents from Santa Claus). In recent years, many Mexicans have come to feel that this is several customs too many...
...Kallaus has been busy building up a collection of class snaps to preserve memories in the year book due in April or May, according to editors Moody and Worsley. It all depends on the staff, they say. The staff has a few brilliants in such men as Ches Baker, who is reported to have drawn up a reply to Mr. Lindsay's valentine cartoon. Speculation runs wild as to the nature of Mr. L's prewar profession. Jack Anspaugh claims it was a professorship of history but lately it has been hinted that he may have been M.C. or something...
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...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...