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In the fifth period, long-legged Winston Guest, U. S. back, was ridden down by Captain Roark, pitched off his white-booted pony, thrown breathless on his back. His brother Raymond hurried out on the field, saw that the injury was not serious, ran back to stop his frantic mother...
Thick-legged and firmly fleshed over her solid muscles, ebulliently British in manner, conveying an impression of good nature by her obvious healthfulness and a smile far better dentifriced than most English girls', Betty Nuthall was the tournament's only box-office attraction. At the West Side Tennis Club she...
Moby Dick (Warner). Like The Sea Beast, the silent version of Herman Melville's story in which Barrymore appeared four years ago, this is a true moving picture, no less effective because a conventional love-interest has been added to the activities of a crazy one-legged sea-captain who...
In Indianapolis one night last week, big floodlights poured metallic glare over a baseball field under a pitchblack sky and the Cincinnati "Reds" played an exhibition game with the Indianapolis "Indians." It was the first night game ever played by a major league team. The lights turned the field to...
After the Armistice, John Bullock gets his job back. Artist William Kennode, whose numerous woodcuts are grafted into the text, shows a picture very much like the frontispiece: Clerk Bullock back at his old desk, but now his boss is a younger instead of an older man, himself prematurely middleaged...