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...Winslow Boy (London Films; Eagle Lion). Between 1908 and 1910, England was deeply stirred by a struggle between a teen-aged schoolboy and a hidebound bureaucratic government. At 13, George Archer-Shee had been expelled without trial from the Royal Naval...
Columbia University authorities yesterday confirmed reports that they have turned down Stanford's proposal to play the Lion football team on September 30 at New York...
...coherence. Smith, a six-foot 200-pounder, delights his juveniles by chasing, and being chased by, the clown Clarabell, taking pratfalls, and getting squirted in the eye with seltzer water. In his new role of Buffalo Bob, great white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba, and such novelty instruments as the tonette and slide whistle...
...under the glaring lights. A steel band, hammering biscuit tins, old oil cans and brake drums, made the place hotter with ear-splitting overtures. Then judges were picked from the audience, and the calypsonians started in. Besides Attila there were old master-singers with such names as the Roaring Lion, Growling Tiger, Mighty Dictator, Small Island Pride and the Blind Sensation...
...subjected to a steady campaign of harassment, have been jailed, fined and beaten. This is embarrassing to the British, because they are trying desperately to prove that Britain can do business with China's Communists. Last week, there were signs that the roar of the once-proud British lion had been reduced to a humble purr...