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...family of faces are included: 1. Footballer Remington Olmstead, University of California at Los Angeles, 2. Crewman Samuel Drury, Harvard University, 3. Shotputter J. M. Baillieu, Magdalen College (England), 4. Tackle Fil Sanford, University of Richmond, 5. Shotputter Jack Torrance, Louisiana State University, 6. Gymnast Rehor, University of Illinois, 7. Pugilist Paul Hartnek, Creighton University, 8. Highjumper A. Waley, Eton College (England), 9. Speedster Ivan Fuqua, Indiana University, 10. Halfback Harry Patch, Villanova College, and 11. Ballcarrier...
Church of England bishops also had trouble with the priesthood last week. They cannot induce sufficient young men to study for orders in order to fil all vicarates. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, noted at the Church Assembly in London that there is "a certain amount of social contempt for a boy who intends to become a clergy...
Legitimate actors, who long have repeated the slur that the only two-syllable word that Hollywood knows how to pronounce is "fil-lum," may not forget their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore...
There can be no question of the author's encyclopaedic knowledge of native and military life in North Africa. He is one of the few novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words-jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!-without seeming unduly affected. His dialogs crackle, his humor sparkles. He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir. He introduces Mary's Cockney maid, Maudie, to ridicule "sheik fiction" of the E. M. Hull type...