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...year, and give Bill the handicap he should have, there is a good chance for a Crimson place here. Although Bill is not in shape yet, he is running much beter than last year. Clark of Yale is the man to watch, while Talbot, another Eli, and a free-lancer named Thompson are all good possibilities. Barney Ewell from Penn State is the best man in the country, and if he is entered, will be the favorite, closely followed by Davis of California...
...career, amassed more than 350 screen credits. He directed a quickie for a comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with the script finished, the kidney trouble returned, forced...
EUROPEAN JUNGLE - Francis Yeats-Brown-Macrae Smith ($3). England's yogi-man (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Yogi Explained} submits a hot-eyed appraisal of pre-war Europe. Yeats-Brown's arch-enemies are Communism, Atheism, Internationalism, Pacifism. Hitler, "a great man, whatever his failings . . . great in spirit," is favorably compared with Gandhi, T. E. Lawrence. France is "one of the most enjuivé [Jewridden] countries in Europe . . . nothing but a dictatorship can save [the French]." Readers who must grant the author the courage of his two-thirds fascist convictions, supported by no little factual solidity, will...
...result is one of the finest action pictures since Actor Cooper and Director Henry Hathaway once before pooled their he-man talents in Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Although the plot demands that Filipinos be portrayed as terrified by Moro juramentados (dreadnought Mohammedans to whom killing a Christian is a sure passport to heaven), a few such scenes were deleted by Producer Goldwyn, at the request of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon. Excellent shots: Moros catapulting from trees over a stockade to steal ammunition; Canavan encountering the head of a companion (Broderick Crawford) who encountered some Moros in the jungle...
...When the lancer falls from his horse...