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During his nine years at Harvard, his Varsity teams have won 50 matches against 13 defeats. In the two seasons 1934 and 1935, the Epee team twice won the Intercollegiate championship, while Hurd, who had never held a foil before college, placed first in the championship match with that weapon, and later went to the Olympics...
With 27 events scheduled, W. Scott Long, Jr. '39 will be the first man in the Foil, Lester C. Mill '39 in the Epee, and Joseph T. Doyle '39 in the Saber. There will be nine events with each weapon...
Charles Boyer, as the Emperor, is excellent. Actually, however, it is the sensitive acting of Greta Garbo which enhances the value of Mr. Boyer's portrayal. As the Countess Marie Walweska, with whom Napoleon falls deeply in love, she is a perfect foil for her leading...
...most Kaufman plays, its crises are epigrammatic rather than emotional-is counteracted by its novel background and its general impudence. It is further notable for being Verree Teasdale's (Mrs. Aaolphe Menjou) first picture since her serious illness in October 1936. Her blonde coloring makes her a handsome foil to the darkling insipidity of Kay Francis, whom she outplays in their scenes together...
...play she is no longer real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing...