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...academic pictures. (Wrote he: "The finish is sufficiently gloomy. . . .") His Blowing out a Candle had a more elusive humor-the blower is blown out along with the candle. His miserly Old Man Figuring seems to be plucking out sums like a harpist. Sometimes his stuff looks like-matchstick people that a U.S. Indian might have scratched on a rock. His Witch with a Comb would be an innocuous little old woman-in spite of her shoe-button eyes-except that her hands are arrows pointing straight down to the ground as if to say "I could kill...
...happened. The candy-striped tripod spun over, crushed like a matchstick. It was payoff time in Alaska's famed Nenana Ice Pool, the world's biggest gamble...
...fans it looked like the good old days. The Babe, swinging two bats, stepped up to the plate with choppy little strides of his matchstick legs. Farmer Johnson shuffled awkwardly around the mound, his long right arm winding up the historic sidearm delivery. The first pitch was low and inside, the second a called strike. Ruth popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases...
Billy Draws a Horse (by Lesley Storm; produced by Lee Shubert & William A. Brady) is a wee mite of an English comedy, cheerily piping in its thin little treble, bravely kicking its little matchstick legs. Deft, witty Comedienne Grace George does all she can to build it up, but the little fellow needs milk & eggs, a good tonic and lots of fresh country...
...film is brought out in these struggles. After more than one hour of emotionally fighting the sea from a plush chair, your reviewer was left somewhat spent and breathless. Yet he enjoyed his fight with the shark, his fearful clinging to the small bear which spun around like a matchstick in a drain, and especially the sensation of rolling in on the tops of the foaming breakers...