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Brecht's most basic plot revisions are of the end of the movie. The gallows scene and reprieve are cut, and instead Mack the Knife escapes from jail and becomes the head of a prominent banking house which Polly has bought for him. He takes as partners Polly's father, old Peachum, the organizer of London's beggars, and Tiger Brown, who has been deposed as London's police chief. Both of these old criminals have been stripped of their respectability by an enormous demonstration put on by thousands of crippled beggars during Queen Victoria's coronation parade...
...sword, after last season in which too many couldn't extract their weapons. Choreographer Theresa Dickinson provided some pleasing dances, and outstanding movement by the policemen's chorus. Offspring of Sir Robert Peel, they and their well-shined escutcheons boast a bend sinister--they are clearly bastard descendants of Mack Sennett. The Keystone Cops had nothing on this crew in hilarity, and DcVoto should get a medieval medal for putting some of their lines into Gregorian chant...
...stiff standards in the fundamentals of tackling and blocking. Last year Kuharich barely managed a 5-5 record. This year, with only three seniors recruited by Brennan on the squad, Kuharich was hit by a numbing series of injuries, including the loss for the season of Halfback Red Mack, an All-America candidate. But teams of the past would have found new All-Americas chafing on the bench. The trouble with Notre Dame football is far more basic than sidelined stars. When newsmen visit him, Kuharich fiddles with a letter opener during the long, painful interviews and says: "Time changes...
...Died. Mack Sennett (real name: Michael Sinnott), 76, impresario of frantic antics on the silent screen; of a heart attack; in Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, near Hollywood. Canadian-born Sennett started moviemaking under famed D. W. Griffith in 1910, quickly became Sultan of Slapstick, directing Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Bathing Beauties Gloria Swanson and Carole Lombard, Keystone Cops Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle...
Yale's chances for a team first place depend not only on a high finish by Bachrach, but also on the performance of Bob Mack and Tommy Carroll. Mack and Carroll were third and fourth in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular...