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...Mile: Mullin can win, even if Yale coach Bob Giegengack throws his running machine, Bobby Mack, into the mile...
Bulldog coach Bob Giegengack put his two-mile ace, Bobby Mack, in the mile against Mark through a 3:10.0 three-quarters, but the Eli, a small, mechanical, and very precise runner, simply left Mullin behind in the final 440. He won by 40 yards in 4:13.7, a new Cage record...
Insurance men have played their part in show business at least since Go-for-Broker Arthur Stebbins, nephew of 20th Century-Fox's former Board Chairman Joe Schenck, talked Mack Sennett into taking a $500,000 policy on cross-eyed Ben Turpin to protect Sennett if Turpin's eyes should decide to go straight. Self-proclaimed originator of "the scarface policy," Stebbins later arranged insurance for Eddie Cantor's eyes, Jimmy Durante's nose, Marlene Dietrich's legs. Of course, the real purpose was publicity, and for sheer newsworthiness no policy before or since...
...runs up the hotel stairs like a kitten chasing a ball of yarn; and when she sings her song about the circumstances under which a girl should "lie down," her face is soft and pale, like a child's. But as soon as she has to take charge of Mack's gang, her clothes and manner become those of the archtypical business woman, and her face appears on the screen in a new and harsher light. She finds herself trapped in her new role when Mack returns from jail to the new bank that she has bought...
...movie is full of inconsistencies. Jenny, the prostitute who turns Mack over to the police, is never really a part of the story, and was kept only because of the exigencies of the plot, a spark of loyalty to the original version, and Lotte Lenya's availability. And Lenya sings her one song with such grace and pathos that she steals the movie...