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Racquets is often confused with squash racquets, squash racquets with squash tennis, squash tennis with court tennis, court tennis with lawn tennis. Always recondite pastime, racquets has traversed the social gamut more completely than any other game. It started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise...
Rainbow on the River is a sentimental costume drama, dated 1875, in which the cinema's No. 1 boy soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
...star. As an interpreter of the most solidly English of all English playwrights, Elisabeth Bergner's most pronounced drawback is an outlandish accent which she makes no effort to control. In As You Like It, the heterogeneous aspect of a forest already overrun by an astonishing gamut of classes, nationalities and wild animals is not greatly increased by a heroine who voices her passion in Germanic gutturals. Audiences may be pardoned for anticipating a czardas instead of a square dance in the closing pageant, but otherwise Actress Bergner's linguistic eccentricities actually serve a useful purpose. They make...
...SHOT (A Grass-roots Guide to American Hunting)-Robert B. Vale-Stackpole ($4). Some people may cry out against this book because its purpose, aside from underscoring some truisms of game conversation, is to tell inexperienced hunters how, when and where to quarry. It runs the North American gamut from squirrels and doves up through bear and turkeys. It is written in short, efficient chapters, with a minimum of glowing reminiscence, a maximum of good hunting sense. Bob Vale has shot wild guinea fowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and told a bear to go scat on a Pennsylvania trout...
...that the broadcasting companies have clamped down on one party or another during the last few weeks is not borne out by the facts. The tuning dial has run the gamut of colors from the purple and gold of economic royalty to the bright red of communism. Censorship is not the issue, for time on the air has been sold to all comers...