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...Corp.). You can readily guess what kinds of travelers are to be found in this picture: a picture thief (Conrad Veidt), his accomplice (Hugh Williams), a cinemactress (Esther Ralston), a businessman eloping with his partner's wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds...
MASEFIELD (John) Sard Harker. Mind...
David Cooper, an unknown from the Middle West, leaps into fame overnight by winning the national championship at Forest Hills. More, he leaps into a good job, for Mr. Harker, genial villain of the piece, is not only a member of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association's executive committee but has a penchant for employing tennis champions: he seems to think it helps him in his business. For a long time David sees nothing wrong with the picture. Mr. Harker pays him to sell bonds but insists on his playing in all the big U. S. and European tournaments...
...unmitigated excitement. Author Masefield, famed and beloved as the poet of Dauber, Reynard the Fox, etc., does not, one hopes, take his novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard Harker, to show that the Sage of Boar's Hill knows anything about novels except to start a tale and then spin away for all he is worth, and the devil take the hindermost reader. His new title stands for One Damn Thing After Another...
...teams when the starting whistle blew were lined up as follows: HARVARD OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE Clifford g. g. Borden Watson pt. pt. Ogilvie Gamache c.pt. c.pt. Greenwood Linn f.d. f.d. Brown Reed s.d. s.d. Sholl Coombs t.d. t.d. Harker Hatch c. c. Good Sayles t.a. ta. Fullbright Babson s.a. s.a. Marshall Simpson f.a. f.a. Adshed Lane o.h. o.h. Melland Gillies i.h. i.h. Fornby...