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...Penrod and Sam (First National). A minor cycle of juvenile comedies (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Skippy, Forbidden Adventure) has immeasurably improved this branch of entertainment in the cinema. Where such pictures a few years ago attempted nothing more ambitious than antic farce, as exemplified in the Our Gang comedies, there is now a fashion for being lifelike as well as funny. The fashion is eminently becoming to Penrod...
Following, but not to the letter, the stories concocted by Author Booth Tarkington, Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday...
Leon Janney is a little too pretty and a shade too self-conscious for Penrod but his laugh, so incongruous with his speech that it sounds like a ventriloquist's giggle, is the most infectious sound in the picture. Sam (Junior Coghlan) has a flat Irish face, eyes that narrow pleasantly in anger; the short right with which he starts his fight with Penrod is better timed than Carnera's (see p. 22). Good shots: nice little Georgie Bassett doing a minuet at the birthday party while Penrod and Sam are fighting upstairs; the In-or-In Club...
...with the class of 1926. Last year, having raised $200,000, he took a party of actors aboard the Viking to make a sound-cinema called White Thunder of the sealing fleets. It was for additional shots to complete the scenario that he set out with Cameraman Arthur G. Penrod on the disastrous voyage last month...
...Horse Island. Among the 26 missing from the sealer Viking which sank after an explosion off Horse Island, N. F. last fortnight (TIME, Mar. 23) were a daring young film-maker named Varick Frissell of Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook...