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...fifth set, the excitable crowd, well aware that the Cup which France has held for six years depended on the next few games, began to chant "Cochet! Cochet! Cochet!" But little Cochet, dapper and forlorn, needed something more than encouragement. Perry, apparently not tired at all, saw that his opponent was too weary to cover the blazing court. He smashed through five games in a row, making Cochet run as far as possible in every rally. Cochet picked up one game on his own serve but Perry quickly took the next one and" the set, 6-1. In the dressing...
...President said "Dr. Dick." Byzan asked me if I knew for sure. I said that I had neither seen him killed nor dead; but believed the report to be true. Then Byzan and the President threw their arms about each other's neck and wept aloud; like two forlorn babies. But after a moment, Byzan pushed Machado away from him, and pointing his finger at him, exclaimed, "Gerhardo, all the world will blame you for his death!" Machado replied...
...rescue. Laura Hope Crews who played a serious version of the same role in The Silver Cord does as well as anyone possibly could with Mrs. Colgate. The picture is a minor injustice to her as well as to Zasu Pitts, whose woeful eyes, Lady Macbeth hands and forlorn nervous meanings have made her celebrated as Hollywood's only sad comedienne...
...Budapest (Fox). The most important things in this picture are. of course, the animals-forlorn tigers prowling in their tiny cages, a blackfaced grey gibbon nibbling a bun with sophisticated gestures, a stampeding elephant who wrecks the lion house. But the people are exciting too. There is a sentimental young attendant (Gene Raymond) who amuses himself when lonely by holding long talks with the chimpanzees and who burns as many fur neckpieces as he can steal from visitors. There is a girl (Loretta Young) who, facing a five-year occupational school course in hide-curing, runs away one day when...
...shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed there-one-third of a length at Hammersmith Bridge, a good length at Duke's Meadows, a length and one-half at Barnes Bridge when Oxford made a last forlorn bid to close the open water, two lengths and one-half at the finish at Mortlake, in 20 min. 57 sec., slow time with a sluggish tide...