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...Penrod & Sam (Warner). Even the audience which did not read Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories when they were the same age as the protagonists will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood...
Shooting for Harvard were John G. Penrod '36, Guy Huntley '37, Philip M. Andress '36, and Malcolm S. Watts '37. The next meets on the schedule are with Princeton and Ohio State on February...
...against the background of the U. S. scene. Thus, what was in 1922 a shrewd and observant novel, emerges in 1935 as a bitingly satiric portrait of an era. Alice Adams-once a typical U. S. adolescent with scarcely more serious claims on a reader's sympathy than Penrod or Willie Baxter-is now something infinitely more important and the heroine of a picture which, while it is often uproariously funny, is in effect a bitter and perceptive minor tragedy...
...same time it was learned that that Club had won its objective sheets of the season by defeating Yale 1278-1180 in a formally conducted postal match. The winning Crimson team was composed of Captain John G. Penrod '36, Andress, Albert D. Foster, Jr. '36, Howland B. Stoddard '35, and Malcolm S. Watts...
...meeting, which was an end-of-the-year party, included a number of shooting games handily won by Captain Penrod. To lend aerial atmosphere to one called "Fighting in the Clouds," the shooter was placed on a chair perched atop a table, a "joystick" in one hand, and a pistol in the other, and told to explode some wildly jouncing balloons