Word: mens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Rank's "Scott of the Antarctic" is a melodrama--in the most favorable sense of the word. It tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's last expedition in 1908 into the Antarctic waste. There are scenes in the film which establish the personal relationships of the five men who make the desperate final dash to the South Pole. Far more important than these relationships, however, is the common purpose of the men to reach the Pole before Amundsen, and to return before the setting of the sun brings the winter blizzards...
...Frend has innumerable opportunities to fill the picture with false heroics; especially when Scott and his men discover that they are not the first to reach the Pole, for Amundsen's Norwegian flag is already planted there. It is much to Frend's credit that John Mills, who plays Scott, and Derck Bond, Reginald Beckwith and Harold Warrender, as other members of the expedition, play their parts as men who can take defeat quietly and then move on to the next task at hand. Mills, in the same spirit, plays Scott with great honesty and authenticity...
...success of "Scott of the Antarctic" must go to the cameramen, director, and to Vaughn Williams, who composed the score. Williams' music is not subtle; but it reflects magnificently the changing moods of the Antarctic, and with low, vibrant rhythms the slowing heartbeats of Scott and his men...
Yesterday being Wednesday, Art Valpey put the Harvard football team through its usual mid-week practice session. This time it was with an eye toward checking errors of execution, sharpening the timing of the squad in general, and of men playing unfamiliar positions in particular...
...timing should show definite improvement this Saturday. Men who played against Dartmouth with only the minimum scrimmage time beforehand, Hal Moffie for instance, will be more crisp in their exceution Saturday...