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They have proved pretty conclusively that they are fine picture makers - with or without Coward. Without a flop to their discredit so far, the trio has Rank's fondest blessings. Cineguild's next job: Oliver Twist...
Kentuckians were more worried about C. V. Whitney's Virginia-bred Phalanx, a flop-eared bay with a peculiar hobbyhorse stride. Nobody had heard much about him last year until the two-year-olds began to go a distance of ground; then Phalanx showed a liking for the sport. Says Trainer Sylvester Veitch: "He's not hard to handle, but he'd just as soon step on you as not." Smart but rather overbearing, Phalanx is built-to-order for the rough, mile-and-a-quarter Derby grind. He isn't fussy whether the track...
...fill such a big theater for such a long time to make money, that investors want to be sure of a hit. In a non-musical, the expense is less, and the necessary success is less, so the gamble is less. Furthermore, if the show is a flop, the less is less. A musical flop, usually costing around $250.000 is big business, and big business is interested in profits not progress...
...speedy and accurate, had lost only once-to Oklahoma A. & M. Also among the nation's best: unbeaten Seton Hall (South Orange, N. J.), Alabama and West Virginia; firehouse Rhode Island State (won 11; lost 1); Oregon State (19-2). Illinois' Whiz Kids (TIME, Dec. 23), a flop at the season's start, were now in the running with Wisconsin and Michigan for the Big Nine title...
...Lunarium. Yet the older Adams grew, the more he soured and the louder became his mocking. "I bob like a buoy in a seasick ocean," he complained. "I flop and paddle about in my own hyper-spaces. . . . The whole thing here looks like a general Lunarium. ... A queer Byzantine world, it is, and a pure waste of life to live...