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...points the story moves a bit slowly, and a director less restrained than Henry Koster might have tossed in a cavalry charge or a belly dancer to whomp things up a bit. Yet he resists temptation, and except for a few scenes in which priests of Chemosh, played by weight lifters in green lingerie, clomp about to oboe music, the picture is commendably unepic. The actors strike a reasonable compromise between self-conscious reverence and nat ural behavior, and the speeches they are given are free from the archaic flourishes that no one since the time of King James...
...amusing situation-so why isn't it a more amusing picture? Allyson and Niven can hardly be expected to fill the bill with anything like the inspired inanities of which Lombard and Powell were capable. But the real fault seems to lie with Director Henry Koster. who apparently has not learned that even a good joke can be spoiled by bad timing...
RICHARD M. KOSTER Brooklyn...
...prepare coffee and Boerebiskuit (Afrikaans for shortbread) for all. As the Prime Minister came into the hall a moment later, the visitors broke into old Boer war songs-the Volksliederen of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Then the Senate's only woman member, Mrs. M.D.J. Koster, spoke her thanks to the white race's savior: "Every white woman and every white mother thanks you from the depths of her heart." Deeply moved, Strydom wiped a tear from his cheek, then replied: "We must never be swerved from our goals . . . The struggle must continue...
...varsity's Phil Burnaman lost a close one to Koster, 3 to 2. Dick Hook defeated Howard of Williams, 8 to 0, for the 157 pound class victory. Bob Gilmor the varsity's 167 pounder, pinned Sullivan in 7:27 minutes. Captain Ken Culbert pinned Baumgardner of Williams with a reverse cradle in two minutes. In the unlimited class Pete Morrison of Harvard pinned Reed in 2:30 with a half-nelson and a crotch held...