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...commonest form of betting is associated with the turf. Accordingly, the proposed 5% tax on betting of all sorts included in the new Churchill budget (TIME, May 3) roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...
...effect on the alumni is likely to be similar, but from a more personal standpoint. While it was a matter of chance whether or not the average alumnus was able to get his precious pasteboard, he was sport enough to be a good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money...
Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter...
...joyous occasion. These may be bought at Leavitt & Peirce's, Matthews 1, or Thayer 32. The advantages of being a ticket-holder are obvious. In the first place, no one else will be allowed at the picnic. Moreover the following commodities will be furnished to everyone possessing a pasteboard certificate: Transportation to the island,--and back if desired; costume, which may be obtained in Thayer Common Room today or tomorrow; lunch; real refreshments; entertainment...
...this point Professor Trowbridge had several pictures thrown on the screen. The first was of several coins which had been in his pocket-book which had been put in a wooden box that had been surrounded by a pasteboard box. The next picture was of a turkey's wing which showed the bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance...