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...Hobart Ames Spalding '34, of Milton, will be the manager of the 1933 Varsity football eleven, it was announced yesterday by the Athletic Association following the election of the new captain. Amen will succeed Hamilton Young '33, of Newton, who was manager of this year's team...
...years Austin Hobart Clark has been smelling butterflies in & about the District of Columbia. Just how much pleasure he has got from it he told last week in a 337-page volume laconically entitled The Butterflies of the District of Columbia & Vicinity. In it Butterfly Lover Clark, who is curator of echinoderms at the U. S. National Museum and only smells butterflies as a pastime, poetically reveals several hitherto unsuspected facts concerning the butterfly. Items...
Night World (Universal) is a neat, legible carbon-copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks...
...Miracle Man (Paramount) was a vast success when acted by Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches...
Lucidity, Everyone who presents a paper before the A. A. A. S. must deal with Austin Hobart Clark, longtime expert for the Smithsonian Institution on oceanography, sea life, birds and bugs, onetime aide-de-camp to Louis, oceanophilic Prince of Monaco. Mr. Clark is director of the A. A. A. S.'s press service. He must make certain that facts are fit to print. Few men with technical education can express themselves lucidly. From Mr. Clark they learned that "manuscripts and abstracts should be written in the simplest possible language, and in such a way as to be under stood...