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...plot. The plot of You Can't Take It With You is deliberately banal. Two young lovers are nearly parted because of their families, a dramatic situation which has not grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm...
...dinner Mr. Johnson eat several platefuls of Scotch broth with pease in them and was very fond of the dish. I said, 'You never eat it before, sir.' 'No, sir, but I don't care how soon I eat it again...
Suspicion finally centered on ice cream served Monday night. This was the only dish eaten by all those who became sick. Ice cream comes in units containing about 150 servings and, according to Dr. Bock, if the ice cream was slightly contaminated between a half and a third of those eating it would be expected to get sick. About one out of two people are immune to such forms of poisoning...
...Field, but while honorable animal is Kevorkian around, Harlow's team will be Blankinship men. Only one Player on gobs' team, and he is substitute, so Navy will see Spector when Oakes Fleps passes to a Muse Crimson stands. Harvard linemen not Green; each one can stand Gaffney can dish it out. Odds are on Navy, but that is all Blaha, so take Page from Huey and faites vos jeux. But sailors will go to town in evening when is question of Boston Daughters, not can she, but Wilsie be Struck by Navy. Harvard 14, Navy...
...counterman, Mr. Durant went down to North Asbury last week to see that all was swept and garnished for the grand opening. According to his nephew Wallace R. Willett, he went through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special offers...