Word: clout
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...Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...
...away. He connected squarely with the second ball pitcher "Olie" Olsen served up, driving it into deep left center for the run that emptied the stands for the afternoon, and left the home team on the heavy end of the 2 to 1 score. His round-the-sacks clout, the first for the Crimson since the spring trip, gave him two hits for three times. up; the other was a single in the third frame...
Warren Berg, first-string pitcher, hurled good ball, but got little support from the pitches from the inexperienced infield. Sandy Macmillan, playing second base in today's game, duplicated his feat in the Wentworth contest last Saturday by pounding out a round-the-sacks clout to left field in the eighth inning...
TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...
Lady in the Dark has swarthy Victor Mature, latest in Hollywood's series of almost outrageously beautiful young men, who appears in every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting...