Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshman crew prospects appear exceptionally bright this year. Harvey Love is blessed with a record number of prospects as compared with last year's relatively small turn-out. There is a great deal of raw material in the form of big athletes. In addition there are more experienced men than ever before...
...Love Takes Chance...
...Freshman crew coach Harvey Love is gambling with the elements. He is risking the chance of having one of the Newell speed boats frozen in, so that his Yardling proteges will have more practice on the Charles River. As a result outdoor rowing will continue as long as conditions permit...
...receives his death wound. Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived. It is in the development of the story that things go astray, and it is the author's wavering method of attack that causes the trouble. A love affair that starts hard-boiled ("Aw, come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff is broken and everything comes flowing in light and warm. See what I mean?'') Characters, sharply delineated...
Principal difficulty apparently rises from the inclusion of too many stars. As the play producer, Robert Taylor appears in a new suit in every other scene, but isn't really allotted time to gather momentum for any convincing love-making. Eleanor Powell has too few moments for her tapping specialty; George Murphy, singer of songs, finds himself trying rather unsuccessfully to follow Miss Powell's steps; Robert Benchley doesn't say anything really funny. Only Buddy Ebsen is himself, bit player and stealer of shows...