Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
Flecked with historical idioms like "My liege" and "So be it!", the dialogue is dull and insipidly metaphorical. Taylor and Ava Gardner, who plays Guinevere, struggle gamely, but neither can reduce the heaviness of the material. Late in the film Queen Guinevere is sent to a nunnery. Miss Gardner shifts through this role with the same dexterity we would expect from Lily St. Cyr. Mel Ferrer, as King Arthur, spends the greater part of the film looking wide-eyed at people and ornaments about the palace. He is so obsequious one cannot help but wonder how he put over this...
...finals, scheduled for April 14, in the courtroom of Langdell Hall, will feature the Gardner Club against the Story Club. John W. Dickey 3K and John LcMoyne Ellicott 3L will debate for the Story Club, against two men chosen from among William S. Ellis 3L. John A. Mitchell 3L. and Archibald C. Spenser 3L of the Gardner Club...
Pete Churchill paced the team, winning the cross country-jump combined. Ebbe Dane took second in the cross country and Jack Vohr third in the jump. Harry Gardner placed in two events, second in the downhill combined and third in the slalom...
Setting the pace in the downhill and the slalom, the alpine events, is harry Gardner, who has not competed so far this season, but whom Taylor considers the best in these events. Noel Scullin, another alpine man, has turned in the best competitive marks this season, and Taylor rates him second to Gardener...