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FCChairman Paul Walker hopes TV-hungry communities will not expect miracles overnight. Says he: "Television will not gallop to its new frontier. It will proceed at a snail's pace...
...days when President Eliot took his morning gallop around the Yard on horseback, there was neither plumbing nor central heating in Matthews. Matthews men hauled big wooden tubs out to the Yard pump at six a.m., filled them with water, dragged them back to the basement of the Hall, and took their baths. Toilet facilities consisted of a large pit, also in the basement. Needless to say, living conditions were severe, especially when the "Med. Fac." blew up the Yard pump...
Bugles in the Afternoon (Warner) takes a Technicolor gallop across western prairies infested by Indians who can shoot straight only when they are not shooting at the hero. The indestructible hero is brooding Ray Milland, who has been drummed out of his regiment back east for running a saber into dastardly Hugh Marlowe. Re-enlisting at a frontier fort, he is soon squabbling with Marlowe again, this time over the affections of beauteous Helena Carter...
...ammunition is no heavier than Actor Cummings' bullets. Except for Cummings, who obviously can't take these goings-on seriously, and Character Actor Will Geer, playing a sly local crook, the cast is as earnest as any posse that ever hit the trail. Watching them gallop horselessly through jungle thickets to make Miami safe for Sophie Tucker is one way of waiting for the top half of the double bill...
...service as a fire dog, a black & white Dalmatian named Whiskers lent Hook & Ladder Company No. 10f Newark a flash and luster which made it the envy of the whole department. Whiskers slept in the big truck and never missed an alarm-even though he often had to gallop back from nearby meat shops when the gong began to clang. When he got to the fire, Whiskers would climb ladders and dash eagerly into burning buildings...