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...Capture (RKO Radio) is a western with psychiatric overtones, a bright enough idea that didn't quite work out. Lew Ayres, an American oilman in Mexico, goes out after a payroll bandit and shoots the wrong man. Remorse, complicated by some amazing coincidences, leads him to break his engagement, quit his job, marry the murdered man's widow (Teresa Wright) and set out to clear the dead man's name. He is soon involved in a second murder, causes a suicide, and gets mixed up in a somewhat pointless chase sequence, in which he finally manages...
Written and produced by Novelist Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, The Capture is told in a series of flashbacks that explain too much about Lew Ayres and not enough about the rest of the cast. Despite some good photography, a stark Mexican background, and a fine feeling for place and incident, the indecisive plot suffers from the same fuzziness that clutters up the dialogue...
Rodgers and Hart first met in the fall of 1919, while Rodgers was composing the music for Columbia's Varsity Show the first freshman to be given the job. Herbert Fields, the son of vaudeville comedian Lew Fields, introduced them, and from then almost until Hart's death in 1943 the two worked together. From 1919 on Rodgers and Hart turned out more than a thousand songs, including an extraordinary number of hits, like "Thou Swell," "Ten Cents a Dance," "Falling In Love with Love," "Blue Moon," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Lover," and "Small Hotel...
Samborski plans to stick with his usual lineup except for the left field slot, where Lew Arnow will replace Russ Johnson. Johnson has an exam. Also, Samborski has not yet decided whether he will start Amory Hubbard or Chuck Wade behind...
...Crimson ruggers were the only ones with any scoring punch, although a strong headwind in the second half enabled M.I.T. to bottle them up with long kicks. Hol French, Adams, and Butler were the stars of the game for Harvard with Lew Travis excelling in the scrums...