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...Farewell to Arms (Paramount) will disappoint only those pessimists who, hearing about the difficulties that cropped up during the adaptation of Author Hemingway's sad novel and remembering that it made a wretched play, expected it to be a classic botch. But the picture emerges as a compelling and beautifully imagined piece of work, brilliantly directed by Frank Borzage, acted to perfection by Gary Cooper - whose numb mannerisms are pre cisely appropriate to his role - and by Helen Hayes, whose performance is certainly as good as her work in The Sin of Madelon Claudet which the cinema Academy last...
...playing time is entirely unsatisfactory. No House team wants to lose, but football games between Adams and Lowell, or Dunster and Eliot, are not Stadium games. It would be far better to lose a game and have every man play for a reasonable period of time than to disappoint the substitutes who appear for practice daily and to leave them with the feeling that they are engaging not in a sport but in a strategic battle between House coaches...
Acclaimed as the last and greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
...abolition of 150-pound football will undoubtedly disappoint that small group of men who played the sport during its two-year existence. It provided exercise and enjoyment for a class of men handicapped by size from competing for the University team and, when it was established, had a definite place in the Harvard athletic program...
...those persons who paid The Original Henry Romeike Press Clipping Bureau for the service of seeing their names in print, began to observe a new slogan on the little colored slips to which each clipping is pasted. It read: "Be Sure It's Henry. Other Romeikes May Disappoint." Contrary to the implication, there was not a long list of Romeikes to confuse the unwary clipping client. The bitter warning was raised solely against the late Henry's brother Albert who had gone into business for himself two years earlier following sharp disagreements with Henry's son Georges...