Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready...
Starring for the Blue were Captain Maurice Grasson, son of their Coach Robert Grasson, with three strong wins in the foil and Phil Viscidi with another three in the sabre. Two match winners for the New Haven boys were Bill Randall, Calboun, and Barthel in the epee and Streeter in the foil...
Best Crimson records were Al Labastie's two wins in the foil, Batchelder's two in the sabre, and Croach's two wins and a tie in the epee. The Varsity's closest attempt to a win was in the sabre which they dropped by only one point; the epee went to Yale 5 1/2 to 3 1/2, and the foil was a 6 to 3 sweep for the Elis...
This week the Freshmen outdid their Varsity elders by downing the New Haven cubs in a closer meet 15 to 12. The Crimson looked best in the foil which they took with an easy 6 to 3 score, led by Johnson's three wins...
...Junior, Scott Long, the other foil wielders are Crannie Jones and Al Labastie, a pair of Sophomores, who last year were instrumental in beating the Eli cubs...