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John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (United Artists) is a dreamy, reverent screen translation of four one-act plays about the sea by Eugene O'Neill. Preceded by enthusiastic rumors heralding it as the best picture since The Informer, it opened in the situation of a celebrated home-run hitter going to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. That it failed to clear the bases is as much the fault of its advance rooters as it is of the film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality...
...longest home-run on record, 515 feet...
...Home-run were in order over the weekend. On Friday, Grondahl smacked a long one through right field with one on Saturday, Lupe clouted one into deep left. With the crack of the bat the Columbia left-fielder turned and ran back but the ball still sailed far over his outstretched hands...
...Prouty's first appearance on the mound since the B. U. game a year ago at Nickerson Field. His rout from the mound was duplicated, as the enemy bunched four hits, one a home-run, in the last half of the fateful second...
What a Life (by Clifford Goldsmith; produced by George Abbott). Producer George Abbott, last season's home-run slugger (Room Service, Brother Rat), this season struck out in his first three times at bat. But last week he came up for the fourth time, clouted the ball safely into .the outfield. Not hit so hard as Brother Rat, What a Life travels pretty much in the same direction. Substituting high school for military academy, What a Life is as adolescent as a changing voice, as clean as a West Pointer's white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry...