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...attraction on the University's current bill is a selected short subject. For interesting and continuous entertainment the Grantland Rice Sportlight now showing outranks either of the very ordinary feature pictures. The Ace card in Mr. Rice's latest hand, with Ted Husing dealing, is a pictorial record of one of the freakest of animal companionships, namely that of six otters, two dogs, and a raccoon. With cameramen lurking everywhere, their owner hunts, fishes, and plays with them for a very entertaining quarter-hour. This not one of Grantland Rice's run-of-the-mine features. His men went...
...some of your readers by the unhappy condition of the poor little koala in Australia and have heartily seconded Mr. Dow's suggestion that Mrs. Schroeder's $50 be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life. And now, after having seen yesterday a Grantland Rice Sportlight featuring the six unique otter pets of a gentleman from Minnesota, I wonder why some philanthropist does not initiate a fund for the preservation of the American otter...
...mysterious denizen of Hollywood who called himself John Montague, refused to let himself be photographed, told no one where he came from or how he made his living, and never entered golf tournaments where he might attract publicity. The rumors were so wild that even when benign Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is too serious about sport to hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very seriously. When Westbrook Pegler labeled Montague a combination...
...Unless the law of gravity blows up, the closing curtain should fall on one of the first four acts. . . ."-Grantland Rice...
...Grantland Rice "Sportslight" is quite interesting and the "Audioscopiks" are rather fun. The latter are merely the stereoscopic pictures of about twelve years ago revived with the addition of sound...