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...world. The Aviator is a rewrite of The Hottentot and Horton works his familiar comic business into it without many additions but fairly effectively. Patsy Ruth Miller looks pretty, talks agreeably. Best shot: arranging the contest between the novelist and a famed French ace. Best sound: Horton's grunt...
...wish, divorced the husband of her heart (A. E. Matthews) and who, after seven years, skillfully regains him while his young, obnoxious second wife conceives a passion for a ballroom dancer. In her intrigues Miss George seems wise, affectionate and lovely. Mr. Matthews, pointing his speech with subtle sigh, grunt and grumble, gives a human, extremely funny portrait of a boyish sort of man whose most serious follies must inevitably be ingenuous and disarming. The dialog is sedately witty rather than wisecracking - remarking how, on the basis of deportment, it is difficult nowadays to tell the sexes apart, Miss George...
...ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his pilot's lazy answer, the Spaniard's satisfied grunt...
...last teams to begin practice are those representing Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Even these had begun to grunt and exercise last week. While speculation as to which would be most imposing later in the season is properly confined to barrooms in college clubs and the writings of Grantland Rice, alert prognosticators fixed their attention upon the coaches. Of these, the most interesting is Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens who has replaced famed "Tad" Jones of Yale. Brown, lithe and shy. "Mai" Stevens played for Yale in 1923 on famed "Memphis Bill" Mallory's undefeated team; before that he had played...
...theory of speech is that it began with gestures: "Primitive man would sing, grunt or roar to express emotions just as the animals did. He would pantomime with his face and limbs to express his ideas to his fellows, and as he pantomimed with his hands his tongue would follow suit.* But as he came to occupy his hands more and more in his crafts he would have to rely more on gestures of the face, tongue and lips. Then it would come about that pantomime action would be recognized by sound as well as sight. Speech was thus born...